Published articles

Refereed articles:

Billen J & Peeters C (2020) Glandular innovations for a tunnelling life : Silk and associated leg glands in Melissotarsus and Rhopalomastix queen and worker ants. Arthropod Structure & Development (in press)

Keller RA & Peeters C (2020) Poneroid ants. In: Starr C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Springer, Cham.

Peeters C (2020) Colony foundation. In: Starr C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Springer, Cham.

Peeters C (2019) Non-flying reproductives in ants. In: Starr C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Springer, Cham.

Peeters C (2019) Castas: homología y analogía en la forma y función. pp. 159–164 In: Hormigas de Colombia (eds F. Fernández, R.J. Guerrero & T. Delsinne). Universidad Nacional Colombia, Bogota. ISBN 978-958-783-766-7. English (original) version at doi:10.5281/zenodo.3066005

Yong G, Matile-Ferrero D & Peeters C (2019) Rhopalomastix is only the second ant genus known to live with diaspidid scale insects. Insectes Sociaux 66: 273-282.

Khalife A, Keller R, Billen J, Hita Garcia F, Economo E & Peeters C (2018) Skeletomuscular adaptations of head and legs of Melissotarsus ants for tunnelling through living wood. Frontiers in Zoology 15: 30.

Peeters C & Yong G (2017) Synchronized mass return of honeydew-gatherers in Prenolepis ants from Singapore. Asian Myrmecology 9: e009009 (1–6).

Peeters C & Aron S (2017) Evolutionary reduction of female dispersal in Cataglyphis desert ants. Biological Journal of Linnean Society 122: 58–70.

Peeters C, Foldi I, Matile-Ferrero D & Fisher BL (2017) A mutualism without honeydew: what benefits for Melissotarsus emeryi ants and armoured scale insects (Diaspididae)? PeerJ 5:e3599.

Peeters C, Ito F, Wiwatwitaya D, Keller R, Hashim R & Molet M (2017) Striking polymorphism among infertile helpers in the arboreal ant Gesomyrmex. Asian Myrmecology 9: e009015 (1–15).

Peeters C (2017) Independent colony foundation in Paraponera clavata (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): First workers lay trophic eggs to feed queen’s larvae. Sociobiology 64(4): 417–422.

Peeters C, Molet M, Lin CC & Billen J (2017) Evolution of cheaper workers in ants: comparative study of exoskeleton thickness. Biological Journal of Linnean Society 121: 556–563.

Yéo K, Delsinne T, Konaté S, Alonso L, Aïdara D & Peeters C (2017) Diversity and distribution of ant assemblages above and below ground in a West African forest-savannah mosaic. Insectes Sociaux 64: 155-164.

Peeters C & Adams RA (2016) Uncoupling flight and reproduction in ants: Evolution of ergatoid queens in two lineages of Megalomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Insect Science 16(1): 85.

Peeters C & Fisher BL (2016) Gamergates (mated egg-laying workers) and queens both reproduce in Euponera sikorae ants from Madagascar. African Entomology 24: 180-187.

Peeters C & Ito F (2015) Wingless and dwarf workers underlie the ecological success of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 21: 117–130. [Review] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.845751

Heraty J, Mottern J & Peeters C (2015) A new species of Schizaspidia, with discussion of the phylogenetic utility of immature stages for assessing relationships among Eucharitid parasitoids of ants. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 108: 865–874.

Peeters C & De Greef S (2015) Predation on large millipedes and self-assembling chains in Leptogenys ants from Cambodia. Insectes Sociaux 62: 471–477.

Peeters C, Heraty J & Wiwatwitaya D (2015) Eucharitid wasp parasitoids in the cocoons of the ponerine ant Diacamma scalpratum from Thailand. Halteres 6: 90–94.

Molet M, Maicher V & Peeters C (2014) Bigger helpers in the ant Cataglyphis bombycina : Increased worker polymorphism or novel soldier caste? PLoS One 9(1): e84929.

Keller RA, Peeters C & Beldade P (2014) Evolution of thorax architecture in ant castes highlights trade-off between flight and ground behaviors. eLife 3:e01539. [+ Editor’s choice 3:e02088]

Peeters C & Tinaut A (2014) Reconstructing life history in ants: Ergatoid queens, facultative monogyny and dependent colony foundation in Monomorium algiricum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 20: 77–85.

Helms JA, Peeters C & Fisher BL (2014) Funnels, gas exchange and cliff jumping: natural history of the cliff dwelling ant Malagidris sofina. Insectes Sociaux 61: 357–365.

Peeters C & Wiwatwitaya D (2014) Philidris ants living in Dischidia epiphytes from Thailand. Asian Myrmecology 6: 49–61.

Cronin A, Molet M, Doums C, Monnin T & Peeters C (2013) Recurrent evolution of dependent colony foundation across eusocial insects. Annual Review of Entomology 58: 37–55.

Peeters C, Braun U & Hölldobler B (2013) Large colonies and striking sexual investment in the African stink ant, Paltothyreus tarsatus (subfamily Ponerinae). African Entomology 21(1): 9–14.

Peeters C, Lin C-C, Quinet Y, Martins Segundo G & Billen J (2013) Evolution of a soldier caste specialized to lay unfertilized eggs in Crematogaster ants (subgenus Orthocrema). Arthropod Structure & Development 42: 257–264.

Okada Y, Plateaux L & Peeters C (2013) Morphological variability of intercastes in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi: pattern of trait expression and modularity. Insectes Sociaux 60: 319–328.

Bouchet D, Peeters C, Fisher BL & Molet M (2013) Both female castes contribute to colony emigration in the polygynous ant Mystrium oberthueri. Ecological Entomology 38: 408–417.

Cournault L & Peeters C (2012) Aggression regulates monogyny in non-mutilating Diacamma ants. Insectes Sociaux 59: 533–539.

Peeters C (2012) Convergent evolution of wingless reproductives across all subfamilies of ants, and sporadic loss of winged queens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 16: 75–91. [Review]

Molet M, Wheeler D & Peeters C (2012) Evolution of novel mosaic castes in ants: Modularity, phenotypic plasticity, and colonial buffering. The American Naturalist 180: 328–341.

Peeters C, Keller RA & Johnson RA (2012) Selection against aerial dispersal in ants: Two non-flying queen phenotypes in Pogonomyrmex laticeps. PLoS One 7(10): e47727.

+ ARTICLES PUBLISHED 1984-2012