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

 * 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.; 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


 * 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,


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


 * 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


 * 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


 * 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


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


 * 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.


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