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.
Mackay, W. P. 1993. A review of the New World ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 22:1-148.
Mackay, W. P. 1993. Succession of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on low-level nuclear waste sites in northern New Mexico. Sociobiology 23:1-11.
Maes, J., and W. Mackay. 1993. Catálogo de las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Nicaragua. Rev. Nicar. Entomol. 23:1-46.
Cokendolpher, J., W. Mackay, and M. Muma. 1993. Seasonal population phenology and habitat preferences of montane harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from southwestern New Mexico. Southwest. Nat. 38:236-240.
Crawford, C. S., W. P. Mackay, and J. Cepeda. 1993. Detritivores of the Chilean arid zone (27-32 degrees south) and the Namib Desert: a preliminary comparison. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 66:283-289.
Mackay, W. P., S. Loring, S. Silva, F. Fisher, J. Zak, and W. G. Whitford. 1994. Biotic and abiotic factors which affect mass loss of surface creosotebush litter in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Southwest. Nat. 39:78-82.
Mackay, W. P., and E. E. Mackay. 1994. Lasius xerophilus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a new species from White Sands National Monument, south central New Mexico. Psyche 101:37-43.
Mackay, W. P., S. Porter, H. Fowler, and S. B. Vinson. 1994. A distribucao das formigas lava-pés (Solenopsis spp.) no estado de Mato Grossso do Sul, Brasil (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 24:307-312.
Fernandez, F., E. Palacio, W. P. Mackay, and E. Mackay. 1996. "Introducción al estudio de las hormigas de Colombia." Pp. 349-412 in Insectos de Colombia, Estudios Escogidos. M. Andrade, G. García and F. Fernandez (eds.). Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Sante Fe de Bogota, 541 pp.
Mackay, W. P. 1996. "A revision of the ant genus Acanthostichus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Sociobiology 27:129-180.
Mackay, W. P. 1997. "A revision of the ants of the genus Camponotus, subgenus Myrmostenus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 99:194-203.
Mackay, W. P., 1998. A remarkable new species of ant of the genus Paratrechina from the state of Colima, Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomology 74:99-101.
Mackay, W. P., 1998. A new army ant, Neivamyrmex isodentatus, from southern Texas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Southwestern Naturalist 43:333-335.
Mackay, W. P., 1998. Dos especies nuevas de la tribu Attini de Costa Rica y Mexico: Mycetosoritis vinsoni y Mycocepurus curvispinosus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical. 46:421-426.
Mackay, W. P., 1999. Superfamilia Formicoidea, Familia Formicidae. In: Insectos de Nicaragua, J. M. Maes (ed.), 1900 pp., Vol. 3:1726-1753.
Mackay, W. P., 2000. A review of the New World ants of the subgenus Myrafant, (Genus Leptothorax) Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Sociobiology 36:265-444.
Mackay, W. P., 2003. Subfamilia Cerapachyinae, Chapter 17, pp 267-270. In: Introducción al Estudio de las Hormigas Neotropicales, F. Fernández (ed.).
Mackay, W. P., 2004. A new species of the ant genus Acanthostichus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Paraguay, and a description of the gyne of A. brevicornis. Emery. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington106:97-101.
Mackay, W. P., and D. Fagerlund. 1997. "Range expansion of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), into New Mexico and extreme West Texas." Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 99:758-759.
Mackay, W. P., and E. Mackay. 1997. "Una nueva especie de hormiga del genero Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) del estado de Chihuahua, Mexico." Sociobiology 30:43-49.
Mackay, W. and E. Mackay. 2008. Revision of the ants of the genus Simopelta Mann. In: Sistemática, Biogeografía y Conservación de las Hormigas Cazadores de Colombia. E. Jiménez, F. Fernández, T. Arias and F. Lozano eds., 609 pp. Institutión de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, pages 285-328.
Mackay, W. and E. Mackay. 2010. The Systematics and Biology of the
New World Ants of the Genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Edwin Mellen Press,
xii + 642 pp.
Email: wmackay@utep.edu
Last Update: 24 Jan 2011