Savolainen, Riitta

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Department of Biosciences P.O. Box 65 FI-00014 University of Helsinki Finland

riitta.savolainen(at)helsinki.fi

ANT TAXONOMY
The goal of our research is to reconstruct phylogenies of several Holarctic ant groups using DNA sequence data and model-based phylogenetic inference methods. We are interested in the systematic relationships of ants as such, but particularly we study evolutionary-biological questions, such as social parasitism, speciation, phylogeography, and biogeography.

TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS
Radchenko, A., G. W. Elmes and R. Savolainen. 2008. Myrmica xavieri sp.n., a new ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Spain. Entomologica Fennica 19: 49-54.