Gottfrid Agaton Adlerz (1858-1918)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
Gottfrid Agaton Adlerz, born 1858, death in 1918, American zoologist and entomologist, who became an associate professor at Stockholm University 1889 and lecturer in Sundsvall from 1894. He argued inter alia that even the animals had been "understanding", they could "learn" and "draw conclusions".
Adlerz published on gynandromorphs and on inquiline ants. Adlerz may have been the first to report tandem running in ants; and the tandem run he described apparently involved a Leptothorax slave leading a Harpagoxenus sublaevis slave maker during a nest emigration.
A Swedish entomologist who wrote his doctoral thesis in the 1880's on Swedish ants and their living conditions. He was appointed associate professor in 1889. In 1905 he became a member of the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was known as one the most prominent entomologists at the time.
ANT TAXONOMY
Adlerz described a new ant species, Formica suecica and described queens and males of Harpagoxenus sublaevis.
PUBLICATIONS
Adlerz, G. 1908. Zwei Gynandromorphen von Anergates atratulus Schenck. Ark. Zool. 5(2 2: 1-6
REFERENCES
Aurivillius, C. 1919. Entomologisk Tidskrift 40:65-77, bibliography, portrait.
Creighton, W. S. 1927. The slave-raids of Harpagoxenus americanus. Psyche (Camb.) 34: 11-29