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B. Bolton, “Key to British Myrmica species (workers)”, BWARS Newsletter, vol.  Spring 2005, pp.  13-14, 2005.

B. Bolton, “Synopsis and classification of Formicidae”, Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, vol.  71, pp.  1-370, 2003.

B. Bolton, A new general catalogue of the ants of the World. Cambridge, Massachusetts.: Harvard University Press, 1995.

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B. Bolton, “A new socially parasitic Myrmica, with a reassessment of the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)”, Systematic Entomology, vol.  13, pp.  1-11, 1988.

B. Bolton and Collingwood, C. A., Hymenoptera: Formicidae. 1975.