Cover, Stefan P.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Stefan Cover has worked as curator of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology since 1990? He has specialized on the ants of North America in his field work although he has traveled to South America as well. Stefan has assisted many young myrmecologists to identify ants to species and has reviewed their papers and provided sage career advice.

ANT TAXONOMY
Stefan has published primarily on the ants of North America and the New World.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Archibald et al 2006.pdf|Archibald, S.B., Cover, S.P. & Moreau, C.S. 2006. Bulldog ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and history of the subfamily. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99: 486-523.]]


 * Cover, S. P. 1990. [Untitled. Keys to the ant genera of the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. Based on the worker caste.]. Pp. 62-81 in: Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. [1990-03-28]


 * [[Media:Deyrup 2004.pdf|Cover, S.; Deyrup, M. 2004. [Untitled. Leptothorax palustris Cover and Deyrup, new species.]. Pp. 52-55 in: Deyrup, M.; Cover, S. A new species of the ant genus Leptothorax from Florida, with a key to the Leptothorax of the southeast (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Fla. Entomol. 87:51-59. 87(1): 51-59.]]


 * [[Media:Cover 2007.pdf|Cover, S. P. and M. Deyrup. 2007. A new ant genus from the southwestern United States. Pages 89-99 in Snelling, R. R., B. L. Fisher and P. S. Ward. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E.O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80.]]


 * Cover, S.P.; Sanwald, R. (1988) Colony Founding in Acanthomyops murphyi, a Temporary Social Parasite of Lasius neoniger. Advances in Myrmecology by James Trager, 405-417


 * [[Media:Cover, S.P., et al. 1990.pdf| Cover, S. P.; Tobin, J. E.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ant community of a tropical lowland rainforest site in Peruvian Amazonia. Pp. 699-700 in: Veeresh, G. K.; Mallik, B.; Viraktamath, C. A. (eds.) 1990. Social insects and the environment. Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of IUSSI, 1990. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., xxxi + 765 pp. [1990-08] PDF]]


 * Cover, S.; Wilson, E. O.; Nasrecki, P. 2003. Encyclopedia of life: should species description equal gene sequence? A reply. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18:612. [2003-12]


 * [[Media:Cover 1998.pdf|Deyrup, M.; Cover, S. 1998. Two new species of Smithistruma Brown (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Florida. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 100: 214-221.]]


 * [[Media:Cover 2004a.pdf|Deyrup, M.; Cover, S. 2004a. A new species of Odontomachus ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from inland ridges of Florida, with a key to Odontomachus of the United States. Fla. Entomol. 87(2): 136-144.]]


 * Deyrup, M.; Cover, S. 2004b. A new species of the ant genus Leptothorax from Florida, with a key to the Leptothorax of the southeast (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Fla. Entomol. 87(1): 51-59


 * Deyrup, M. and S. P. Cover. 2007. A new species of Crematogaster from the pinelands of the southeastern United States. Pages 100-112 in Snelling, R. R., B. L. Fisher and P. S. Ward. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E.O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80,


 * [[Media:Deyrup, M., Davis, L. & Cover, S. 2000. Exotic ants in Florida.pdf|Deyrup, M., Davis, L. & Cover, S. 2000. Exotic ants in Florida. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 126, 293-325.]]


 * Fisher, B. L.; Cover, S. P. 2007. Ants of North America. A guide to genera. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiv + 194 pp. [2007-09]


 * [[Media:Heinze et al 1998.pdf|Heinze, J.; Cover, S. P.; Hölldobler, B. 1998 ("1995"). Neither worker, nor queen: an ant caste specialized in the production of unfertilized eggs. Psyche (Cambridge) 102:173-185. [1998-03-27] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Heinze J 1992.pdf|Heinze, J.; Hölldobler, B.; Cover, S. P. 1992. Queen polymorphism in the North American harvester ant, Ephebomyrmex imberbiculus. Insectes Soc. 39: 267-273.]]


 * Johnson, R. A.; Cover, S. P. 2015. A taxonomic revision of the seed-harvester ant genus Pogonomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on Hispaniola. Zootaxa 3972(2):231-249.


 * [[Media:Cover 2002.pdf|LaPolla, J. S., Cover, S.P. ; Mueller, U.G. 2002. Natural history of the mealybug-tending ant Acropyga epedana, with descriptions of the male and queen castes. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 128: 367-376.]]


 * [[Media:LaPolla & Cover 2005.pdf|LaPolla, J. S.; Cover, S. P. 2005. New species of Pheidole (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) from Guyana, with a list of species known from the country. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 131(3-4): 365-374.]]


 * [[Media:Longino & Cover 2004.pdf|Longino, J.T. & Cover, S. 2004. A revision of the Aphaenogaster phalangium complex. Zootaxa 655: 1-12.]]


 * [[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:Messer, S.J., Cover, S.P., LaPolla, J.S. 2016. Nylanderia deceptrix sp. n., a new species of obligately socially parasitic formicine ant.pdf|Messer, S.J., Cover, S.P., LaPolla, J.S. 2016. Nylanderia deceptrix sp. n., a new species of obligately socially parasitic formicine ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 552: 49–65 (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.552.6475).]]


 * [[Media:Rabeling & Cover 2007.pdf|Rabeling C, Cover SP, Mueller UG & Johnson RA. 2007. A review of the North American species of the fungus-gardening ant genus Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1664:1-54.]]


 * [[Media:Snelling & Cover 1992.pdf|Snelling, R. R.; Cover, S. P. 1992. Description of a new Proceratium from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 99: 49-53.]]


 * Snelling, G. C.; Cover, S. P. 2009. The status of Neivamyrmex goyahkla and Neivamyrmex ndeh (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18:282-284. [2009]


 * [[Media:Snelling et al 2009.pdf|Snelling, R. R.; Snelling, G. C.; Schmidt, J. O.; Cover, S. P. 2009. The sexual castes of Pogonomyrmex anzensis Cole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18:315-321. [2009] PDF]]