Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Edward O. Wilson, one of the great naturalists of our time, hatches big ideas from the study of very small creatures. His newest book, Pheidole in the New World, surveys a genus of ants whose complexity and evolutionary success are so extraordinary they have never before been fully described.

• * Introduction * The Origins of Hyperdiversity * Glossary and Anatomy * Keys * The Workerless Social Parasites of the New World Pheidole, Based on the Queen * The Species Groups of the Nonparasitic New World Pheidole, Based on the Worker Castes * The aberrans Group * The biconstricta Group * The crassicornis Group * The diligens Group * The distorta Group * The fallax Group * The flavens Group * The gertrudae Group * The granulata Group * The lamia Group * The megacephala Group * The perpusilla Group * The pilifera Group * The punctatissima Group * The scrobifera Group * The tachigaliae Group * The teneriffana Group * The transversostriata Group * The tristis Group * The New World Species * Indeterminate Names * References * Acknowledgments * Index

Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Edward O. Wilson, one of the great naturalists of our time, hatches big ideas from the study of very small creatures. His newest book, Pheidole in the New World, surveys a genus of ants whose complexity and evolutionary success are so extraordinary they have never before been fully described.

• * Introduction * The Origins of Hyperdiversity * Glossary and Anatomy * Keys * The Workerless Social Parasites of the New World Pheidole, Based on the Queen * The Species Groups of the Nonparasitic New World Pheidole, Based on the Worker Castes * The aberrans Group * The biconstricta Group * The crassicornis Group * The diligens Group * The distorta Group * The fallax Group * The flavens Group * The gertrudae Group * The granulata Group * The lamia Group * The megacephala Group * The perpusilla Group * The pilifera Group * The punctatissima Group * The scrobifera Group * The tachigaliae Group * The teneriffana Group * The transversostriata Group * The tristis Group * The New World Species * Indeterminate Names * References * Acknowledgments * Index

Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Edward O. Wilson, one of the great naturalists of our time, hatches big ideas from the study of very small creatures. His newest book, Pheidole in the New World, surveys a genus of ants whose complexity and evolutionary success are so extraordinary they have never before been fully described.

• * Introduction * The Origins of Hyperdiversity * Glossary and Anatomy * Keys * The Workerless Social Parasites of the New World Pheidole, Based on the Queen * The Species Groups of the Nonparasitic New World Pheidole, Based on the Worker Castes * The aberrans Group * The biconstricta Group * The crassicornis Group * The diligens Group * The distorta Group * The fallax Group * The flavens Group * The gertrudae Group * The granulata Group * The lamia Group * The megacephala Group * The perpusilla Group * The pilifera Group * The punctatissima Group * The scrobifera Group * The tachigaliae Group * The teneriffana Group * The transversostriata Group * The tristis Group * The New World Species * Indeterminate Names * References * Acknowledgments * Index