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References by Ward, P. S.
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Ward, P. S. 1999b. Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the Pseudomyrmex viduus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Triplaris- and Tachigali-inhabiting ants. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 126:451-540. PDF
Brady, S. G.; Gadau, J.; Ward, P. S. 2000. Systematics of the ant genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a preliminary analysis using data from the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase I. Pp. 131-139 in: Austin, A. D.; Dowton, M. (eds.) 2000. Hymenoptera. Evolution, biodiversity and biological control. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 468 pp.
Wetterer, J. K.; Ward, P. S.; Wetterer, A. L.; Longino, J. T.; Trager, J. C.; Miller, S. E. 2000. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Santa Cruz Island, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 99:25-31.
Ward, P. S. 2000a. On the identity of Pheidole vaslitii Pergande (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a neglected ant from Baja California. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 9:85-98. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2000b. Broad-scale patterns of diversity in leaf litter ant communities. Pp. 99-121 in: Agosti, D.; Majer, J. D.; Alonso, L. E.; Schultz, T. R. (eds.) 2000. Ants. Standard methods for measuring and monitoring biodiversity. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, xix + 280 pp. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2001. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Oriental and Australian regions. Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:589-665. PDF
Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G. 2002. Phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genera Myrmecia and Nothomyrmecia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and related fossil taxa. [Abstract.]. P. 156 in: Billen, J. P. J. 2002. XIV International Congress of IUSSI. The Golden Jubilee Proceedings. 27 July - 3 August 2002, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Sapporo: XIV International Congress of IUSSI, 233 pp.
Johnson, R. A.; Ward, P. S. 2002. Biogeography and endemism of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Baja California, Mexico: a first overview. Journal of Biogeography 29:1009-1026. PDF
Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G. 2003. Phylogeny and biogeography of the ant subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17:361-386. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2003. Subfamilia Pseudomyrmecinae. Pp. 331-333 in: Fernández, F. (ed.) 2003. Introducción a las hormigas de la región Neotropical. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xxvi + 424 pp. PDF
Kaspari, M.; Ward, P. S.; Yuan, M. 2004. Energy gradients and the geographic distribution of local ant diversity. Oecologia (Berlin) 140:407-413. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
Ward, P. S.; Downie, D. A. 2005. The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants. Systematic Entomology 30:310-335. PDF
Boulton, A. M.; Davies, K. F.; Ward, P. S. 2005. Species richness, abundance, and composition of ground-dwelling ants in northern California grasslands: role of plants, soil, and grazing. Environmental Entomology 34:96-104. PDF
Suarez, A. V.; Holway, D. A.; Ward, P. S. 2005. The role of opportunity in the unintentional introduction of nonnative ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102:17032-17035. PDF
van der Hammen, T.; Ward, P. S. 2005. Ants from the Ecoandes expeditions: diversity and distribution. Studies on Tropical Andean Ecosystems 6:239-248. PDF
Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2005. Assembling the ant "Tree of Life" (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 7:87-90. PDF
Brady, S. G.; Ward, P. S. 2005. Morphological phylogeny of army ants and other dorylomorphs (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 30:593-618. PDF
Brady, S. G.; Schultz, T. R.; Fisher, B. L.; Ward, P. S. 2006. Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:18172-18177. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2006. The ant genus Tetraponera in the Afrotropical region: synopsis of species groups and revision of the T. ambigua-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:119-130. PDF
Bolton, B.; Alpert, G.; Ward, P. S.; Naskrecki, P. 2007. Bolton's Catalogue of ants of the world: 1758-2005. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Compact Disk. PDF
Snelling, R. R.; Fisher, B. L.; Ward, P. S. (eds.) 2007. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E.O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80:690 pp.
Ward, P. S. 2007a. Edward O. Wilson and his contributions to ant systematics. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80:3-7. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2007b. The ant genus Leptanilloides: discovery of the male and evaluation of phylogenetic relationships based on DNA sequence data. Pp. 637-649 in: Snelling, R. R.; Fisher, B. L.; Ward, P. S. (eds.) 2007. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E.O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80:690 pp. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2007c. Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1668:549-563. PDF
Kautz, S.; Lumbsch, H. T.; Ward, P. S.; Heil, M. 2009. How to prevent cheating: a digestive specialization ties mutualistic plant-ants to their ant-plant partners. Evolution 63:839-853. PDF
Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G. 2009. Rediscovery of the ant genus Amyrmex Kusnezov (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and its transfer from Dolichoderinae to Leptanilloidinae. Zootaxa 2063:46-54. PDF
Wernegreen, J. J.; Kauppinen, S. N.; Brady, S. G.; Ward, P. S. 2009. One nutritional symbiosis begat another: phylogenetic evidence that the ant tribe Camponotini acquired Blochmannia by tending sap-feeding insects. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:292. 10.1186/1471-2148-9-292 PDF
Ward, P. S. 2009a. The ant genus Tetraponera in the Afrotropical region: the T. grandidieri group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18:285-304. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2009b. Taxonomy, phylogenetics, and evolution. Pp. 3-17 in: Lach, L.; Parr, C. L.; Abbott, K. (eds) 2009. Ant ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xvii + 410 pp. PDF
Protonyms originally described by author
Protonym Taxon Authorship Rank Status
†Pseudomyrmex baros †Pseudomyrmex baros Ward, 1992 Species Valid Original combination
†Pseudomyrmex coruscus †Pseudomyrmex coruscus Ward, 1992 Species Valid Original combination
†Pseudomyrmex macrops †Pseudomyrmex macrops Ward, 1992 Species Valid Original combination
†Pseudomyrmex nexilis †Pseudomyrmex nexilis Ward, 1992 Species Valid Original combination
†Pseudomyrmex oryctus †Pseudomyrmex oryctus Ward, 1992 Species Valid Original combination
†Pseudomyrmex prioris †Pseudomyrmex prioris Ward, 1992 Species Valid Original combination
†Pseudomyrmex succinus †Pseudomyrmex succinus Ward, 1992 Species Valid Original combination
†Pseudomyrmex thecolor †Pseudomyrmex thecolor Ward, 1992 Species Valid Original combination
†Pseudomyrmex vicinus †Pseudomyrmex vicinus Ward, 1992 Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex hesperius Pseudomyrmex hesperius Ward, 1993 Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex janzeni Pseudomyrmex janzeni Ward, 1993 Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex mixtecus Pseudomyrmex mixtecus Ward, 1993 Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex opaciceps Pseudomyrmex opaciceps Ward, 1993 Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex particeps Pseudomyrmex particeps Ward, 1993 Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex reconditus Pseudomyrmex reconditus Ward, 1993 Species Valid Original combination
Adetomyrma Adetomyrma Ward, 1994 Genus Valid
Adetomyrma venatrix Adetomyrma venatrix Ward, 1994 Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex inquilinus Pseudomyrmex inquilinus Ward, 1996 Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex crudelis Pseudomyrmex crudelis Ward, 1999b Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex deminutus Pseudomyrmex deminutus Ward, 1999b Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex eculeus Pseudomyrmex eculeus Ward, 1999b Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex ferox Pseudomyrmex ferox Ward, 1999b Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex hospitalis Pseudomyrmex hospitalis Ward, 1999b Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex insuavis Pseudomyrmex insuavis Ward, 1999b Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex ultrix Pseudomyrmex ultrix Ward, 1999b Species Valid Original combination
Pseudomyrmex vitabilis Pseudomyrmex vitabilis Ward, 1999b Species Valid Original combination
Tetraponera apiculata Tetraponera apiculata Ward, 2001 Species Valid Original combination
Tetraponera avia Tetraponera avia Ward, 2001 Species Valid Original combination
Tetraponera bita Tetraponera bita Ward, 2001 Species Valid Original combination
Tetraponera brevis Tetraponera brevis Ward, 2001 Species Valid Original combination
Statistics
Published between 1980–2023
Taxon descriptions between 1980–2022
No. of references 87
No. of described taxa (including combinations) 124
No. of described taxa (valid, including combinations) 119
No. of described taxa (protonyms only) 120
Names belonging to author
Author name No. of references
Ward, P. S. 87