Nihat Aktaç

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Nihat Aktaç is publishing on the ants of Turkey. Trakya University, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Department of Biology, 22030 Edirne, Turkey; e-mail: nihata@trakya.edu.tr

ANT TAXONOMY

Aktaç has raised several ants from Turkey to species status.

PUBLICATIONS

Aktaç, N. 1977 [1976]. Studies on the myrmecofauna of Turkey I. Ants of Siirt, Bodrum and Trabzon. Istanbul Univ. Fen Fak. Mecm. Seri B 41: 115-135

Aktaç N, Kiran K (2004) A new harvester ant from Turkey: Oxyopomyrmex krueperi Forel, 1911 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceeding of 17th National Congress of Biology, Zoology Section 21-24 June, Adana, Turkey (In Turkish,

Aktaç, N. & Radchenko, A.G. 2002. Türkiye karincalari cins tani anahtari. Türkiye Entomoloji Dergisi 26: 51-61.

Aktaç, Nihat; Radchenko, Alexander G; Kiran, Kadri 2004. On the taxonomy of the West Palaearctic Aenictinae ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 54(2): 361-364

Baroni Urbani, C.; Aktaç, N.; Camlitepe, Y. 1989. Disclosing the mystery of Messor caducus Motschulsky (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 62: 291-301

Elmes, G.W., Radchenko, A.G. & Aktaç, 2002. Four new Myrmica species from Turkey. Annales Zoologici (Warszawa) 52: 157-171.

Kiran K, Aktaç N, Tezcan S. (2008) Three new species of ants, genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Turkey. Biologia 63 (5): 689-695.