@article {538,
	title = {A taxonomic revision of the members of the Camponotus lateralis species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Europe, Asia Minor and Caucasia.},
	journal = {Soil Organisms},
	volume = {91},
	year = {2019},
	month = {2019-04-01},
	pages = {7-32},
	chapter = {7},
	abstract = {<p>A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus lateralis group based on methods of Numeric Morphology-Based Alpha-Taxonomy (NUMOBAT) is presented considering the Palaearctic region west of 46\&deg;E. One size, nine shape and three setae characters were recorded in a total of 260 samples with 587 worker individuals. Species hypotheses were formed by three exploratory data analyses: the hierarchical methods NC-Ward and NC-part.hclust and the iterative vector-quantization method NC-part.kmeans. Samples with classifications disagreeing among the methods were finally allocated to a particular cluster by wild-card runs in a controlling linear discriminant analysis.</p>
},
	keywords = {color polymorphism, cryptic species, nest centroid clustering, numeric morphology-based alpha-taxonomy, size dimorphism},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.25674/so-91-1-02},
	url = {http://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/52},
	author = {Seifert, Bernhard}
}
