Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Carlos Guillermo Aguayo y Castro (1899-1982)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Dr. Aguayo worked at the Poey Museum, Edificio Felipe Poey, Planta Baja, Plaza Ignacio Agramonte, Universidad de la Habana, Vedado, Cuba. Aguayo worked with Dr. William J. Clench on Mollusks and with Dr. William M.Wheeler on ants.

Cuba / Puerto Rico, malacologist

ANT TAXONOMY

"I avail myself of the opportunity given me by the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to study in the United States, and Dr. Barbour’s permission to work in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to publish this small contribution to the knowledge of Cuban ants."

Aguayo described six new species of Temnothorax, three new species of Camponotus and one new species of Hypopnera from Cuba.

PUBLICATIONS

Aguayo, C. G. 1931. New ants of the genus Macromischa. Psyche (Camb.) 38: 175-183

Aguayo, C. G. 1932. Notes on West Indian ants. Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 27: 215-227

Aguayo, C. G. 1937. Nueva especie de hormiga cubana. Mem. Soc. Cuba. Hist. Nat. "Felipe Poey" 11: 235-236

REFERENCE

Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton’s Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.