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Verhaagh, Manfred
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Manfred Verhaagh studies ant ecology, and is the head of the entomology department at the Natural History Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Contact Information:
Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde, Erbprinzenstrasse 13, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany, email: manfred.verhaagh@smnk.de
ANT TAXONOMY
Published papers on the taxonomy of the basal ant lineage Martialis heureka, and Indo-Australian Mystrium.
PUBLICATIONS
- Bihn, J.H. & Verhaagh, M. 2007. A review of the genus Mystrium in the Indo-Australian region. Zootaxa 1642: 1-12.
- Ketterl, J. ; Verhaagh, M. 2004. Acanthoponera mucronata (Roger, 1860) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), first record in Peru and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with description of its male. Revista Peruana de Entomologia 44: 65-68.
- Ketterl, J.; Verhaagh, M.; Dietz, B. H. 2004. Eurhopalothrix depressa sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Southern Brazil with a Key to the Neotropical Taxa of the Genus. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 39(1): 45-48.
- Klingenberg, C.; Verhaagh, M. 2005. Myrmecology in the internet: possibilities of information gathering (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 55:485-498.
- Rabeling C, Brown JM & Verhaagh M. 2008. Newly discovered sister lineage sheds light on early ant evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (39): 14913-14917.
- Rabeling, C.; Verhaagh, M.; Engels, W. 2007. Comparative study of nest architecture and colony structure of the fungus-growing ants, Mycocepurus goeldii and M. smithii. Journal of Insect Science 7: Article 40.
- Rabeling C, Verhaagh M, Garcia MVB. 2012. Observations on the specialized predatory behavior of the pitchfork-mandibled ponerine ant Thaumatomyrmex paludis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Breviora 533: 1-8.
- Verhaagh, M. 1996. Warum die älteste bekannte Ameise keine ist (Hymenoptera). Beiträge der Hymenopterologen-Tagung in Stuttgart 1996:11. 132531