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Three ways to distinguish species: using behavioural, ecological, and molecular data to tell apart two closely related ants, Camponotus renggeri and Camponotus rufipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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Ronque, Mariane U. V., Azevedo-Silva, Marianne, Mori, Gustavo M., Souza, Anete P., Oliveira, Paulo S. (2016): Three ways to distinguish species: using behavioural, ecological, and molecular data to tell apart two closely related ants, Camponotus renggeri and Camponotus rufipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (1): 170-181, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12303, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/zoj.12303

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