The Global Ant Project (GAP)
We are reaching out to the global ant community to create resources and tools for the study of ants. Through a series of meetings at Harvard University and at the Chicago Field Museum, a small group of myrmecologists have met to set up specific goals. Refer to GAP meeting notes and objectives for details. All are welcome to contribute ideas and content to this collaboration..
We have recently created a list of 908 World Ant Taxonomists and on each author's web page we added an image if available, a brief biographical note, a brief summary of their ant taxonomic contributions and a list of their ant taxonomic publications. When PDF reprints become available, we will link these papers to each reference. If you are interested in contributing to this effort, please submit PDF publications, author images and biographical text via email and we will add your name to our credit list: Gary D. Alpert, Christian Rabeling, Kari Ryder-Wilkie, Edward O. Wilson, Marek Borowiec, Cesare Baroni Urbani, Robert Taylor, Mostafa Sharaf, Ross Crozier, Alex Wild, David Lubertazzi, Graham Elmes, Jacques Delabie, Himender Bharti, Seiki Yamane, Katsuyuki Eguchi and Barry Bolton. We dedicate this World Ant Taxonomist list to Ross Crozier who was making contributions up to his last moments.
We are developing a LUCID key to the Extant Ant Genera of the World. This key is based upon Barry Bolton's Synopsis of the Formicidae and his Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World. We will post this key as it is being developed with the hope that others will make contributions and critical but constructive comments.
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| Jean Bondroit | Pierre André Latreille | Lucy Evelyn Cheesman | Andersen | Eric Wasmann |