User:Galpert

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Alpert studies myrmecophiles and collects ants in tropical and subtropical countries around the world. Currently is a Research Affiliate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.

ANT TAXONOMY
Published papers on the taxonomy of Malagasy ants.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Alpert 1992.pdf|Alpert, G. D. 1992. Observations on the genus Terataner in Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 99: 117-127 PDF]]


 * Alpert, Gary D. 1994. A Comparative Study of the Symbiotic Relationship Between Beetles of the Genus Cremastocheilus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and their Host Ants (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Sociobiology 25(1).


 * [[Media:Alpert 2007.pdf|Alpert, G. D. 2007. A review of the ant genus Metapone Forel from Madagascar, pp. 8-18. In Snelling, R. R., B. L. Fisher, and P. S. Ward (eds). Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E. O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Alpert2013.pdf|Alpert, G. D. 2013. A new species of Tyrannomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Sri Lanka, Zootaxa 3721 (3): 286–290 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Alpert 1972.pdf|Alpert, G. D.; Akre, R. D. 1973. Distribution, abundance, and behavior of the inquiline ant Leptothorax diversipilosus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 66:753-760. [1973-07-16] PDF]]


 * Bolton, B.; Alpert, G.; Ward, P. S.; Naskrecki, P. 2007. Bolton's Catalogue of ants of the world: 1758-2005. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, CD-ROM. [2007-01]


 * [[Media:Borowiec et al 2011 Anomalomyrma.pdf|Borowiec, M.L., Schulz, A., Alpert, G.D., Banar, P. 2011. Discovery of the worker caste and description of two new species of Anomalomyrma with unique abdominal morphology. Zootaxa 2810: 1-14. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Duffield Alpert 2011.pdf|Duffield, R.; Alpert, G.D. 2011. Colony Structure and Nest Location of Two Species of Dacetine Ants: Pyramica ohioensis (Kennedy & Schramm) and Pyramica rostrata (Emery) in Maryland (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Psyche (2011), Article ID 526175, 9 pages. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Eguchi et al 2009.pdf|Eguchi, K., T. V. Bui, D. M. General and G. D. Alpert. 2009. Revision of the ant genus Anillomyrma Emery, 1913 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Solenopsidini). Myrmecological News 13: 31-36. PDF]]
 * Ellison, A. M.; Gotelli, N. J.; Farnsworth, E. J.; Alpert, G. D. 2012. A field guide to the ants of New England . New Haven: Yale University Press, xv + 398 pp


 * | General, D.M. & Alpert, G.D. 2012. A synoptic review of the ant genera of the Philippines. ZooKeys 200: 1-111.


 * Gronenberg, W., Hölldobler, B. & Alpert, G.D. 1998. Jaws that snap: control of mandible movements in the ant Mystrium. Journal of Insect Physiology 44: 241-253.


 * [[Media:Guenard shik et al ins soc 2016.pdf| Guenard, B.*, Shik, J.Z.*, Booher, D., Lubertazzi D., Alpert G. (2016) Extreme polygyny in the previously unstudied subtropical ant Temnothorax tuscaloosae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with implications for the biogeographic study of the evoluiton of polygyny. Insectes Sociaux. PDG]]


 * Heinze, J., Hölldobler, B.; Alpert, G. 1999. Reproductive Conflict and Division of Labor in Eutetramorium mocquerysi, a Myrmicine Ant Without Morphologically Distinct Female Reproductives. Ethology 105 (8): 701-717


 * [[Media:Proceratium carri Zookeys paper.pdf|Hita Garcia, F.; Hawkes, P. G.; Alpert, G. D. 2014. Taxonomy of the ant genus Proceratium Roger (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region with a revision of the P. arnoldi clade and description of four new species. ZooKeys 447:47–86. PDF]]


 * Hölldobler, B.; Liebig, J.; Alpert, G. D. 2002. Gamergates in the myrmicine genus Metapone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Naturwissenschaften 89:305-307.


 * Hölldobler, B.; Oldham, N. J.; Alpert, G. D.; Liebig, J. 2002. Predatory behavior and chemical communication in two Metapone species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Chemoecology 12:147-151.


 * [[Media:Lubertazzi & Alpert 2014.pdf|Lubertazzi, D. ; Alpert, G.D. 2014. The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Jaragua National Park, Dominican Republic. Journal of Insects. Volume 2014, Article ID 104157, 6 pages. PDF]]


 * Moglich, M. and G.D. Alpert 1979. Stone dropping by Conomyrma bicolor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). A new technique of interference competition. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 6:105-113.


 * [[Media:Taylor, Alpert 2016 Metapone.pdf|Taylor, R. W.; Alpert, G. D. 2016. The myrmicine ant genus Metapone Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a global taxonomic review with descriptions of twelve new species. Zootaxa 4105(6):501-545. [2016-04-27] PDF]]