Review
What can you say about such a volume? It is not a coffee-table book, such as Bolton's last volume ["Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World]...But it adds up to something even more exciting: the holy triad of ants research. The two Bolton volumes and Hö lldobler and Wilson ["The Ants] (1990) mark indeed the culmination of ant research, do they not?...[This] is a unique piece of handicraft and patience...It is concise, complete and doubtless most reliable.
Review
This book will have permanent shelf life. All entomological libraries and entomologists with even a marginal interest in ants have it, because its meticulously crafted synonymies cover all of ant classification from Linnaeus to the present.
--E. O. Wilson, Harvard University
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