Steiner, F. M.; Seifert, B.; Moder, K.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2010. A multisource solution for a complex problem in biodiversity research: Description of the cryptic ant species Tetramorium alpestre sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 249:223-254. PDF

Schlick-Steiner, B. C.; Steiner, F. M.; Seifert, B.; Stauffer, C.; Christian, E.; Crozier, R. H. 2010. Integrative taxonomy: A multisource approach to exploring biodiversity. Annual Review of Entomology 55:421-438. PDF

Steiner, F. M.; Seifert, B.; Grasso, D. A.; Le Moli, F.; Arthofer, W.; Stauffer, C.; Crozier, R. H.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2011. Mixed colonies and hybridisation of Messor harvester ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 11:107-134. PDF

Klarica, J.; Bittner, L.; Pallua, J.; Pezzei, C.; Huck-Pezzei, V.; Dowell, F.; Schied, J.; Bonn, G. K.; Huck, C.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C.; Steiner, F. M. 2011. Near-infrared imaging spectroscopy as a tool to discriminate two cryptic Tetramorium ant species. Journal of Chemical Ecology 37:549-552. PDF

Notes: Published online: 3 May 2011

Qian, Z.-Q.; Ceccarelli, F. S.; Carew, M. E.; Schlüns, H.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C.; Steiner, F. M. 2011. Characterization of polymorphic microsatellites in the giant bulldog ant, Myrmecia brevinoda and the jumper ant, M. pilosula. Journal of Insect Science (available online: insectscience.org/11.71) 11:Article 71 . PDF

Csősz, S.; Wagner, H. C.; Bozsó, M.; Seifert, B.; Arthofer, W.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C.; Steiner, F. M.; Pénzes, Z. 2014. Tetramorium indocile Santschi, 1927 stat. rev. is the proposed scientific name for Tetramorium sp. C sensu Schlick-Steiner et al. (2006) based on combined molecular and morphological evidence (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 253:469-481. PDF

Wagner, H. C.; Arthofer, W.; Seifert, B.; Muster, C.; Steiner, F. M.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2017. Light at the end of the tunnel: Integrative taxonomy delimits cryptic species in the Tetramorium caespitum complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 25:95-129. PDF

Steiner, F. M.; Ambach, J.; Glaser, F.; Wagner, H. C.; Müller, J.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2017. Checklisten der Fauna Ősterreichs, No. 9: Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Wien: Ősterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1-23.

Wagner, H. C.; Gamisch, A.; Arthofer, W.; Moder, K.; Steiner, F. M.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2018. Evolution of morphological crypsis in the Tetramorium caespitum ant species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Scientific Reports (Nature) 8 (12547):1-10. 10.1038/s41598-018-30890-z PDF

Steiner, F. M.; Csősz, S.; Markó, B.; Gamisch, A.; Rinnhofer, L.; Folterbauer, C.; Hammerle, S.; Stauffer, C.; Arthofer, W.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2018. Turning one into five: Integrative taxonomy uncovers complex evolution of cryptic species in the harvester ant Messor “structor”. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127:387-404. 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.005 PDF

Kirschner, P.; Seifert, B.; Kröll, J.; The STEPPE Consortium; Schlick-Steiner, B. C.; Steiner, F. M. 2023. Phylogenomic inference and demographic model selection suggest peripatric separation of the cryptic steppe ant species Plagiolepis pyrenaica stat. rev. Molecular Ecology 32 (5):1149-1168. 10.1111/mec.16828 PDF

Orou, N.; Csősz, S.; Arnan, X.; Pol, R. G.; Arthofer, W.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C.; Steiner, F. M. 2023. Messor erwini sp. n., a hitherto cryptic harvester ant in the Iberian Peninsula. Zoologischer Anzeiger 307:36-53. [online early] 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.09.001 PDF