Citations:Pheidole drogon

Translingual citations of Pheidole drogon

• 2016 27 July, Eli M. Sarnat, Georg Fischer, Evan P. Economo, “Inordinate Spinescence: Taxonomic Revision and Microtomography of the Pheidole cervicornis Species Group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)”, in PLOS One‎^[1]:

  The P. cervicornis group is known only from New Guinea and is represented by the following four species, including two described here as new: P. barumtaun Donisthorpe, P. drogon sp. nov., P. cervicornis Emery, and P. viserion sp. nov.

• 2016 27 July, Eva Botkin-Kowacki, “Stranger than fiction: Why do these ants look like the dragons from ‘Game of Thrones’?”, in Christian Science Monitor‎^[2]:

  With spikes poking up from their backs, the scientists thought the insects resembled the TV dragons, so the two new species have been dubbed Pheidole drogon and Pheidole viserion in a paper published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE.

• 2017, Eli M Sarnat, Nicholas R Friedman, Georg Fischer, Beatrice Lecroq-Bennet, Evan P Economo, “Rise of the spiny ants: diversification, ecology and function of extreme traits in the hyperdiverse genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)”, in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society‎^[3]:

  Minors of these groups show varying degrees of neck muscle extension into pronotal spines: (1) P. onifera, Pheidole sp. epem024, Pheidole sp. epem051 and Pheidole sp. emsm106 produce hollow pronotal spines without visible muscles; (2) Pheidole drogon and P. aristotelis show only a single muscle strand shallowly reaching into the base of the pronotal spines; and (3) Pheidole sp. emsm105 produces extremely elongate pronotal spines that are filled with muscles.

• 2019 September 14, Neurotopia, Facebook‎^[4]:

  A Pheidole drogon é uma especie de formiga descoberta em 2016, em Papua Nova Guiné.

  Pheidole drogon is a species of ant discovered in 2016, in Papua New Guinea.