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

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


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


 * 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.


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


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


 * MacKay, W.P. 1985. Acanthostichus sanchezorum, una nueva especie de Colombia. Sociobiology 11: 127-131. [(31. xii).1985.]


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


 * 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.]


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


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


 * 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.]


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


 * 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.]


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


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


 * 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.]


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


 * 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.


 * [[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]]


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


 * 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]


 * [[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]]


 * 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.


 * [[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.]


 * MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 2002. The Ants of New Mexico: 400 pp. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y.


 * 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.]


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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


 * 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.


 * 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.]


 * 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


 * 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


 * 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


 * F. Serna, W. Mackay 2010. A descriptive morphology of the ant genus Procryptocerus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 10 (111)1-36.


 * Vasquez-Bolanos, 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