@article {33484, title = {Ants of the Florida Keys: species accounts, biogeography, and conservation (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)}, journal = {Journal of Insect Science}, volume = {14}, year = {2014}, month = {Jan-01-2014}, pages = {295 - 295}, abstract = {

As a tropical archipelago, the Florida Keys provide an ideal environment to examine the historic and short-term processes that structure and influence biological diversity. Through a new survey of the ants of the Florida Keys, we increase our knowledge of the number of species to 94 representing 34 genera and 8 subfamilies. Through detailed collection information, we provide an in depth picture of the distribution of each species across the Keys. On the basis of these data and information on the native and known distributions of each species, we confirm the historical trend toward continued immigration of nonnative species into the Florida Keys and present these findings in the context of the proportion of native to nonnative species. We find a similar number of species introduced from the Old World and Neotropical mainland and discuss the probable immigration of mainland Florida species during the exposure of the Florida Shelf during the last glacial episode and the subsequent isolation of some populations as sea level rose following the last glaciation. Lastly, we discuss the possible threats to these populations due to rapid climate change and other human influences.

}, keywords = {biodiversity, Biogeography, Climate change, Florida, insect, Invasive species}, doi = {10.1093/jisesa/ieu157}, url = {http://jinsectscience.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/jisesa/ieu157}, author = {Moreau, C. S. and Deyrup, M. A. and Davis, L. R.} } @inbook {3681, title = {Composition of the ant fauna of three Bahamian Islands}, year = {1998}, note = {Part of FORMIS 00; from Fire Ant Literature Database; from-DPW, verified-DPW.}, pages = {23-31}, publisher = {Bahamian Field Station}, organization = {Bahamian Field Station}, address = {San Salvador, Bahamas}, abstract = {

*[91 species are know from collecting \& literature from Andros island (70 species), New Providence (69 species), \& San Salvador (44 species). There are 36 introduced species. S. invicta collected on Andros island (in 1996), New Providence (in 1995), \& San Salvador (in 1994). B. obscurior queens observed stowing away on a small plane going from Florida to San Salvador. Solenopsis laeviceps literature record questionable.]

}, author = {Deyrup, M.}, editor = {Wilson, T.K.} } @article {3683, title = {An updated list of Florida ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)}, journal = {Florida Entomologist}, volume = {86}, year = {2003}, note = {Part of FORMIS 04; from NAL{\textquoteright}S AGRICOLA; from Fire Ant Literature Database; from-DPW, verified-DPW.}, pages = {43-48}, abstract = {

The Florida list (Deyrup, M.,Johnson, C.,Wheeler, G.C., \& Wheeler, J.) published in1989 is replaced to accomodate 49 additional species now know from Florida, and 34 name changes in species already on the 1989 list. Currently, 218 species of ants are reliably reported from Florida. The native species Formica subsericea \& Solenopsis xyloni, and the exotic species Myrmelachista ramulorum \& Tetramorium lanuginosum have not been found in many years and may have been extirpated. Some taxonomic notes are given.

}, author = {Deyrup, M.} }