Gevork Arakelian

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Gevork Arakelian, Ph.D., Senior Biologist, Los Angeles County, Department of Agricultural Commissioner/ Weights and Measures, South Gate Office, 11012 South Garfield Ave, South Gate, CA 90280, USA.
Email:garakelian@acwm.lacounty.gov
Web site: http://acwm.lacounty.gov/scripts/pestpdf.htm
ANT TAXONOMY
Arakelian has published on the ants of Armenia.
PUBLICATIONS
Arakelian, G. R. 1989. Previously unknown sexual individuals of the ant Myrmica ravasinii Finzi (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Armenia. Biol. Zh. Arm. 42: 733-736
Arakelian G. 1990. On ant fauna of Khosrov reserve. In: Advantages of Entomology in the U.S.S.R.: Insects - Hymenoptera & Lepidoptera. Leningrad, 9-10.
Arakelian, G. R. 1991. A new ant species of the genus Diplorhoptrum Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Armenia. Dokl. Akad. Nauk Arm. 92: 93-96
Arakelian, G. R. 1994a. Fauna of the Republic of Armenia. Hymenopterous insects. Ants (Formicidae). Erevan: Gitutium, 153 pp.
Arakelian G. 1994b. Ants as natural enemies of the Ararat cochineal. In: Les Insectes Sociaux, Paris, 552.
Arakelian G. 1995. Zoogeographical analysis of myrmecofauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Armenia. In: International Society of Hymenopterists Third Annual Conference, Davis, California, 2.
Arakelian, G. R.; Dlussky, G. M. 1991. Dacetine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the USSR. Zool. Zh. 70(2 2: 149-152
Arakelian G., Kalashian M. 1993. Fauna of Armenia: the beetles (Coleoptera) living in association with ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Biologicheski Zhurnal Armenii, v. 46, N2, 50-52.
Arakelian G., Movsessian S., Chubarian F. 1997. Ecological and faunistic review of ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) supplementary hosts of the trematode Dicrocoelium lanceatum in Armenia. Parasitologia, v. 31, N3, 239-244.
Radchenko, A. G.; Arakelian, G. R. 1990. Ants of the group Tetramorium ferox Ruzsky (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Crimea and the Caucasus. Biol. Zh. Arm. 43: 371-378
Radchenko, A. G.; Arakelian, G. R. 1991. New ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Armenia. Vestn. Zool. 5: 72-75
REFERENCE
Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton’s Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.