Research Article
Mites (Acari) Associated with the Desert Seed Harvester Ant, Messor pergandei (Mayr)
Table 2
Total number of male (M) and female (F) alates collected per colony of the ant Messor pergandei and abundance of associated phoretic mites.
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1Two colonies collected at the Cox Rd site. All other colonies were collected at the W McCartney Rd site. Dashed lines mean no alates of that sex were present within the colony. |