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Species Strumigenys mendezi


The ants of North America
By William Steel Creighton
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University 104: 1-585, 1950
Many keys, descriptions, and plates useful for identification.

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Exotic ants in Florida
By Deyrup M., Davis L., Cover S.
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 126: 293-326, 2000

An updated list of Florida ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
By M. Deyrup
Florida Entomologist 86: 43-48, 2003

A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
By Ward P.S.
Zootaxa 936: 1–68, 2005

Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
By P.S. Ward
Zootaxa 1668: 549–563, 2007

The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct
By E. O. Wilson & Bert Holldobler
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Ants of North America--A Guide to the Genera
By Brian L. Fisher and Stefan P. Cover
University of California Press, 2007
Release date is listed on amazon.com as November 2, 2007.
ISBN-10: 0520254228, ISBN-13: 978-0520254220

A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World
By Barry Bolton
Harvard University Press, 1995