Citations:Pheidole viserion
Translingual citations of Pheidole viserion
- 2016 27 July, Eli M. Sarnat, Georg Fischer, Evan P. Economo, “Inordinate Spinescence: Taxonomic Revision and Microtomography of the Pheidole cervicornis Species Group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)”, in PLOS One[1]:
- The P. cervicornis group is known only from New Guinea and is represented by the following four species, including two described here as new: P. barumtaun Donisthorpe, P. drogon sp. nov., P. cervicornis Emery, and P. viserion sp. nov.
- 2016 27 July, Eva Botkin-Kowacki, “Stranger than fiction: Why do these ants look like the dragons from ‘Game of Thrones’?”, in Christian Science Monitor[2]:
- With spikes poking up from their backs, the scientists thought the insects resembled the TV dragons, so the two new species have been dubbed Pheidole drogon and Pheidole viserion in a paper published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE.
- 2016 September, “Igra murav'yov [Game of ants]”, in Mir fantastiki, page 15:
- У муравьёв Pheidole drogon и Pheidole viserion колючие шипы на спине и восновании переднихлапок, что и напомнило исследователям о драконах.
- U muravʹjóv Pheidole drogon i Pheidole viserion koljučije šipy na spine i vosnovanii perednixlapok, što i napomnilo issledovateljam o drakonax.
- The ants Pheidole drogon and Pheidole viserion have prickly spikes on the back and the base of the forelegs, which reminded the researchers of dragons.
- 2020 January 29, “Pheidole viserion”, in AntWiki[3]:
- Pheidole viserion has been collected from three sites in Papua New Guinea from montane primary forests and from a lowland habitat transitioning between primary and secondary forest.