Mackay, William P.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
William P. Mackay Laboratory for Environmental Biology Centennial Museum University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX 79968-0519 Email: wmackay@utep

Dr. William Mackay is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Curator of Insects. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Riverside, in 1981, majoring in Population Biology. He is a specialist on ants and termites. His interests are Desert ecology with emphasis on arthropods, especially ants and termites; biosystematics of ants, especially of the Neotropical region; ant behavioral ecology; impact of man on arid ecosystems; and biological problems involved with the disposal of nuclear waste.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Delsinne et al 2011.pdf|Delsinne, T.D., Mackay, W., Wild, A., Rosin, Y. & Leponce, M. 2011. Distribution and diversity of the cryptic ant genus Oxyepoecus in Paraguay, with descriptions of two new species. Psyche 2012: 8 pp. Article ID 594302. [doi: 10.1155/2012/594302.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Del Toro & MacKay 2009.pdf|Del Toro, I., Pacheco, J.A. & MacKay, W. 2009. Revision of the ant genus Liometopum. Sociobiology 53: 299-369. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Del Toro et al 2009.pdf| Del Toro, I.; Vázquez, M.; MacKay, W. P.; Rojas, P.; Zapata-Mata, R. 2009. Hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Tabasco: explorando la diversidad de la mirmecofauna en las selvas tropicales de baja altitud. Dugesiana 16:1-14. [2009-07-31] PDF]]


 * Fernández, F.; Mackay, W. P. 2003. Myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex laevigatus species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 41: 593-604


 * [[Media:Mackay E Mackay W Fernandez Palacio 1996.pdf|Fernández, F.; Palacio, E. E.; MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. S. 1996. Introducción al estudio de las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Colombia. Pp. 349-412 in: Andrade, M. G., Amat García, G., Fernández, F. (eds.) Insectos de Colombia. Estudios escogidos.  Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 541 pp. PDF]]
 * [[Media:Joma mackay 2013.pdf|Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. A new species of Afrotropical ants in the genus Bothroponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche 2013: Article ID 917847, (doi:10.1155/2013/917847):8 pp. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Joma, A.M.A., Mackay, W.P. 2015. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera pumicosa species complex.pdf|Joma, A.M.A. & Mackay, W.P. 2015. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera pumicosa species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Sociobiology 62: 538-563 (DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.845).]]


 * [[Media:Lattke et al 2008.pdf|Lattke, J.E., Fernández, F., Arias-Penna, T.M., Palacio, E.E., MacKay, W. & MacKay, E. 2008. Género Gnamptogenys Roger (pp. 66-100). In Jíminez, E., Fernández, F., Arias, T.M. & Lozano-Zambrano, F.H. (eds). PDF]]


 * [[Media:Lenhart et al 2013.pdf|Lenhart, P.A., Dash, S.T. & Mackay, W.P. 2013. A revision of the giant Amazonian ants of the genus Dinoponera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 31, 119–164. PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1980.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1980. A new harvester ant from the mountains of southern California. Southwestern Naturalist (25) 2: 151-156. [15.v.1980.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1981.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1981. A comparison of the nest phenologies of three species of Pogonomyrmex harvester ants. Psyche 88: 25-74. [28.xii.1981.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1985.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1985. Acanthostichus sanchezorum, una nueva especie de Colombia. Sociobiology 11: 127-131. PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1989.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1989. A new Aphaenogaster from southern New Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 97: 47-49. [29.iii.1989.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1991.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1991. Anochetus brevidentatus, new species, a second fossil Odontomachiti ant. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 99: 138-140. [14.ii.1991.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1993.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1993a. The status of the ant Leptothorax pergandei Emery. Sociobiology 21: 287-297. [(31.xii).1993.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1993b.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1993b. A review of the New World ants of the genus Dolichoderus. Sociobiology 22: 1-148. [(31.xii).1993.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1995.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1995. New distributional records for the ant genus Cardiocondyla in the New World. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 71: 169-172. [26.x.1995.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1996.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1996. A revision of the ant genus Acanthostichus. Sociobiology 27: 129-179. [(31.xii).1996.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Mackay W 1997.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1997. A revision of the Neotropical ants of the genus Camponotus, subgenus Myrmostenus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 99: 194-203. [25.ii.1997.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1998a.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1998a. A remarkable new species of Paratrechina from the state of Colima, Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 74: 99-101. [1998.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 1998b.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 1998b. A new army ant from southern Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 43: 333-335. [ix.1998.] PDF]]


 * MacKay, W.P. 1998c. Dos especies nuevas de hormigas de la tribu Attini de Costa Rica y México: Mycetosoritis vinsoni y Mycocepurus curvispinosus. Revista de Biologia Tropical 46: 421-426. [1998.]


 * [[Media:Mackay W 2000.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 2000. A review of the New World ants of the subgenus Myrafant (genus Leptothorax). Sociobiology 36: 265-444. [(31.xii).2000.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay 2004.pdf|MacKay, W.P. 2004. A new species of the ant genus Acanthostichus Mayr from Paraguay, and a description of the gyne of A. brevicornis Emery. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106: 97-101. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Mackay 1993.pdf|MacKay, W.P. & Baena, M.L. 1993. A new "horned" fungus growing ant, Cyphomyrmex castagnei, from Colombia. Sociobiology 23: 31-37. [(31.xii).1993.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay & Barriga 2012.pdf| Mackay, W.P. & Barriga, P.A. 2012. A new species of Neotropical carpenter ant in the genus Camponotus, apparently without major workers. Psyche 2012: 5 pp.[Article ID 382938. doi: 10.1155/2012/382938.]PDF]]


 * MacKay, W.P. & Buschinger, A. 2002. A new species of the ant genus Leptothorax (subgenus Myrafant) from Alberta, Canada. Sociobiology 40: 539-545.


 * [[Media:MacKay et al 1995.pdf|MacKay, W. P.; Cover, S. P.; Heinze, J.; Hölldobler, B. 1995. Range extensions for the ant Leptothorax pergandei (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a mesic forest species discovered in the Chihuahuan Desert. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 97:888. [1995-10-31] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Delsinne 2009.pdf|MacKay, W.P. & Delsinne, T. 2009. A new species of carpenter ant from Paraguay, with a key to the New World members of the maculatus species complex. Sociobiology 53: 487-498 PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay et al 2002.pdf|MacKay, W.P., López-Castro, C. & Fernández, F. 2002: A new, high altitude Colombian species of the ant genus Camponotus with dimorphic males and females. Sociobiology 40: 421-430. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Barnes et al 1988.pdf|MacKay, W. P.; Lowrie, D.; Fisher, A.; MacKay, E. E.; Barnes, F. 1988. The ants of Los Alamos County, New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 79-131 in: Trager, J. C. (ed.) Advances in myrmecology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, xxvii + 551 pp. PDF]]


 * MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 1988. Las hormigas de Colombia: Arrieras del género Atta. Revista Colombiana de Entomología 12 (1986): 23-30.


 * MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 1989. Clave de los géneros de hormigas en México. 2nd Simposio Nacional de Insectos Sociales: 1-18.


 * [[Media:MacKay & MacKay 1994.pdf|MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 1994. Lasius xerophilus, a new ant species from White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. Psyche 101: 37-43. [28.vi.1994.] PDF]]


 * MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 1997a. Una nueva especie de hormiga del género Trachymyrmex del Estado de Chihuahua, México. Sociobiology 30: 43-49. [1997.]


 * MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 1997b. A revision of the Neotropical ants of the montivagus species complex, genus Camponotus, subgenus Myrmentoma. Sociobiology 30: 319-334. [(31.xii).1997.]


 * [[Media:Newmexicoants.pdf|MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 2002. The Ants of New Mexico: 400 pp. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y. PDF]]


 * MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 2004. A new species of the ant genus Leptogenys with inflated mandibles. Sociobiology 43: 255-258. [(31.xii).2004.]


 * [[Media:MacKay & MacKay 2006.pdf|MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 2006. A new species of the ant genus Pachycondyla F. Smith, 1858 from Ecuador. Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8: 49-51. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Mackay E Mackay W 2008.pdf|MacKay, W.P., MacKay, E.E. 2008. Revision of the ants of the genus Simopelta Mann (pp. 285-328). In Jíminez, E., Fernández, F., Arias, T.M. & Lozano-Zambrano, F.H. (eds). Sistematica, biogeografia y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia: 609 pp. Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Bogota. PDF]]


 * MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii+642 pp


 * MacKay, W.P., MacKay, E.E., Dominguez, J.F.P., Sanchez, L.I.V. & Orozco, P.V. 1985. Las hormigas del Estado de Chihuahua, Mexico: el genero Pogonomyrmex. Sociobiology 11: 39-54. [(31.xii).1985.]


 * MacKay, W.P., MacKay, M.A. & MacKay, E.E. 2004. An unusual new carpenter ant of the genus Camponotus from Nicaragua. Sociobiology 43: 459-465.


 * [[Media:Mackay et al 2004.pdf|Mackay, W. P.; Maes, J.-M.; Fernández, Patricia Rojas; Luna, G. 2004. The ants of North and Central America: the genus Mycocepurus (Hymenoptera : Formicidae). Journal of Insect Science (Tucson) 4(27): 1-7 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Mackay W Serna F 2010.pdf|Mackay, W. P., and F. Serna. 2010. Two new species of the strigatus species complex of the ant genus Cyphomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Costa Rica and Panamá. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 19:44-50. PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay & Van Vactor 1985.pdf|MacKay, W. P.; Van Vactor, S. 1985. New host record for the social parasite Pogonomyrmex anergismus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 87:863. PDF]]


 * [[Media:MacKay & Vinson 1989.pdf|MacKay, W.P. & Vinson, S.B. 1989a. Two new ants of the genus Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) from eastern Texas. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 91: 175-178. [13.iv.1989.] PDF]]


 * MacKay, W.P. & Vinson, S.B. 1989b. A guide to the species identification of the New World ants. Sociobiology 16: 3-47. [(31.xii).1989.


 * Morgan, C.; Mackay, W.; Pacheco, J. 2003. A new Gnamptogenys of the striatula Group from Bolivia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 4(3): 553-558


 * [[Media:Herrera H 2007.pdf|Pacheco, Jose; Herrera, Henri W.; Mackay, William 2007. A new species of thief ant of the genus Solenopsis from the Galapagos Islands (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology Volume: 50 Issue: 3 Page(s): 1075-1086 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Pacheco, J.A. & Mackay, W.P. 2013. The systematics and biology of the New World thief ants of the genus Solenopsis.pdf|Pacheco, J.A. & Mackay, W.P. 2013. The systematics and biology of the New World thief ants of the genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York. 501 pp.]]


 * [[Media:Pacheco, MacKay & Morgan 2004.pdf|Pacheco, J.; MacKay, W.; Morgan, C. 2004. A new species of Gnamptogenys Roger of the sulcata group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Bolivia. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106(2): 434-437 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Serna Bolton MacKay 2011.pdf|Serna, F., Bolton, B. & Mackay, W. 2011. On the morphology of Procryptocerus. Some comments and corrigenda. Zootaxa 2923: 67-68. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Serna & MacKay 2010.pdf| Serna, F., W. Mackay 2010. A descriptive morphology of the ant genus Procryptocerus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 10 (111)1-36. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Vasquez-Bolanos 2004.pdf| Vásquez-Bolaños, M. and MacKay, W.P. 2004. Una especie nueva de la hormiga cosechadora del género Pogonomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de México. Sociobiology 44(2): 283-287 PDF]]