Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

William P. Mackay

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

William P. Mackay Laboratory for Environmental Biology Centennial Museum University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX 79968-0519 Email: wmackay@utep

Dr. William Mackay is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Curator of Insects. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Riverside, in 1981, majoring in Population Biology. He is a specialist on ants and termites. His interests are Desert ecology with emphasis on arthropods, especially ants and termites; biosystematics of ants, especially of the Neotropical region; ant behavioral ecology; impact of man on arid ecosystems; and biological problems involved with the disposal of nuclear waste.

ANT TAXONOMY

PUBLICATIONS

Del Toro, I., Pacheco, J.A. & MacKay, W. 2009. Revision of the ant genus Liometopum. Sociobiology 53: 299-369.

Fernández, F.; Mackay, W. P. 2003.  Myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex laevigatus species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 41: 593-604

Fernández, F.; Palacio, E. E.; MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. S. 1996.  Introducción al estudio de las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Colombia. Pp. 349-412 in: Andrade, M. G., Amat García, G., Fernández, F. (eds.) Insectos de Colombia. Estudios escogidos.  Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 541 pp.

MacKay, W.P. 1980. A new harvester ant from the mountains of southern California. Southwestern Naturalist (25) 2: 151-156. [15.v.1980.]

MacKay, W.P. 1981. A comparison of the nest phenologies of three species of Pogonomyrmex harvester ants. Psyche 88: 25-74. [28.xii.1981.]

MacKay, W.P. 1985. Acanthostichus sanchezorum, una nueva especie de Colombia. Sociobiology 11: 127-131. [(31. xii).1985.]

MacKay, W.P. 1989. A new Aphaenogaster from southern New Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 97: 47-49. [29.iii.1989.]

MacKay, W.P. 1991. Anochetus brevidentatus, new species, a second fossil Odontomachiti ant. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 99: 138-140. [14.ii.1991.]

MacKay, W.P. 1993a. The status of the ant Leptothorax pergandei Emery. Sociobiology 21: 287-297. [(31.xii).1993.]

MacKay, W.P. 1993b. A review of the New World ants of the genus Dolichoderus. Sociobiology 22: 1-148. [(31.xii).1993.]

MacKay, W.P. 1995. New distributional records for the ant genus Cardiocondyla in the New World. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 71: 169-172. [26.x.1995.]

MacKay, W.P. 1996. A revision of the ant genus Acanthostichus. Sociobiology 27: 129-179. [(31.xii).1996.]

MacKay, W.P. 1997. A revision of the Neotropical ants of the genus Camponotus, subgenus Myrmostenus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 99: 194-203. [25.ii.1997.]

MacKay, W.P. 1998a. A new army ant from southern Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 43: 333-335. [ix.1998.]

MacKay, W.P. 1998b. A remarkable new species of Paratrechina from the state of Colima, Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 74: 99-101. [1998.]

MacKay, W.P. 1998c. Dos especies nuevas de hormigas de la tribu Attini de Costa Rica y México: Mycetosoritis vinsoni y Mycocepurus curvispinosus. Revista de Biologia Tropical 46: 421-426. [1998.]

MacKay, W.P. 2000. A review of the New World ants of the subgenus Myrafant (genus Leptothorax). Sociobiology 36: 265-444. [(31.xii).2000.]

MacKay, W.P. 2004. A new species of the ant genus Acanthostichus Mayr from Paraguay, and a description of the gyne of A. brevicornis Emery. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106: 97-101.

MacKay, W.P. & Baena, M.L. 1993. A new "horned" fungus growing ant, Cyphomyrmex castagnei, from Colombia. Sociobiology 23: 31-37. [(31.xii).1993.]

MacKay, W.P. & Buschinger, A. 2002. A new species of the ant genus Leptothorax (subgenus Myrafant) from Alberta, Canada. Sociobiology 40: 539-545.

MacKay, W.P. & Delsinne, T. 2009. A new species of carpenter ant from Paraguay, with a key to the New World members of the maculatus species complex. Sociobiology 53: 487-498.

MacKay, W.P., López-Castro, C. & Fernández, F. 2002: A new, high altitude Colombian species of the ant genus Camponotus with dimorphic males and females. Sociobiology 40: 421-430.

MacKay, W.P., Lowrie, D., Fisher, A., MacKay, E., Barnes, F. & Lowrie, D. 1988. The ants of Los Alamos County, New Mexico (pp. 79-131). In Trager, J.C. (Ed.). Advances in Myrmecology: 551 pp. New York. [(31.xii).1988.]

MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 1988. Las hormigas de Colombia: Arrieras del género Atta. Revista Colombiana de Entomología 12 (1986): 23-30.

MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 1989. Clave de los géneros de hormigas en México. 2nd Simposio Nacional de Insectos Sociales: 1-18.

MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 1994. Lasius xerophilus, a new ant species from White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. Psyche 101: 37-43. [28.vi.1994.]

MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 1997a. Una nueva especie de hormiga del género Trachymyrmex del Estado de Chihuahua, México. Sociobiology 30: 43-49. [1997.]

MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 1997b. A revision of the Neotropical ants of the montivagus species complex, genus Camponotus, subgenus Myrmentoma. Sociobiology 30: 319-334. [(31.xii).1997.]

MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 2002. The Ants of New Mexico: 400 pp. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y.

MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 2004. A new species of the ant genus Leptogenys with inflated mandibles. Sociobiology 43: 255-258. [(31.xii).2004.]

MacKay, W.P. & MacKay, E.E. 2006. A new species of the ant genus Pachycondyla F. Smith, 1858 from Ecuador. Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8: 49-51.

MacKay, W.P., MacKay, E.E. 2008. Revision of the ants of the genus Simopelta Mann (pp. 285-328). In Jíminez, E., Fernández, F., Arias, T.M. & Lozano-Zambrano, F.H. (eds). Sistematica, biogeografia y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia: 609 pp. Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Bogota.

MacKay, W.P., MacKay, E.E., Dominguez, J.F.P., Sanchez, L.I.V. & Orozco, P.V. 1985. Las hormigas del Estado de Chihuahua, Mexico: el genero Pogonomyrmex. Sociobiology 11: 39-54. [(31.xii).1985.]

MacKay, W.P., MacKay, M.A. & MacKay, E.E. 2004. An unusual new carpenter ant of the genus Camponotus from Nicaragua. Sociobiology 43: 459-465.

Mackay, W. P.; Maes, J.-M.; Fernández, Patricia Rojas; Luna, G. 2004. The ants of North and Central America: the genus Mycocepurus (Hymenoptera : Formicidae). Journal of Insect Science (Tucson) 4(27): 1-7

Mackay, W. P., and F. Serna. 2010. Two new species of the strigatus species complex of the ant genus Cyphomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Costa Rica and Panamá. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 19:44-50.

MacKay, W.P. & Vinson, S.B. 1989a. Two new ants of the genus Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) from eastern Texas. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 91: 175-178. [13.iv.1989.]

MacKay, W.P. & Vinson, S.B. 1989b. A guide to the species identification of the New World ants. Sociobiology 16: 3-47. [(31.xii).1989.

Morgan, C.; Mackay, W.; Pacheco, J. 2003.  A new Gnamptogenys of the striatula Group from Bolivia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 4(3): 553-558

Pacheco, Jose; Herrera, Henri W.; Mackay, William 2007. A new species of thief ant of the genus Solenopsis from the Galapagos Islands (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology Volume: 50 Issue: 3 Page(s): 1075-1086

Pacheco, J.; MacKay, W.; Morgan, C. 2004.  A new species of Gnamptogenys Roger of the sulcata group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Bolivia. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106(2): 434-437

F. Serna, W. Mackay 2010. A descriptive morphology of the ant genus Procryptocerus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 10 (111)1-36.

Vasquez-Bolanos, M. and MacKay, W.P. 2004.  Una especie nueva de la hormiga cosechadora del género Pogonomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de México. Sociobiology 44(2): 283-287

REFERENCE

Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton’s Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.