Johan George Betrem (1899-1980)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Dutch entomologist who worked in Indonesia.

Born: 1899, The Hague, Holland.

Zoologist, educated at Leiden University (Ph. Dr 1928); Assistant in the Entomological Laboratory at Wageningen, 1926-28, and in 1929 Phytopathologist; Entomologist of the Malang Experiment Station in E. Java, 1930-38, subsequently Agriculturist-Entomologist, and finally Head of the Central Java division. After World War II he was evacuated to Holland; at present teacher at the Colonial Agricultural School at Deventer.

Author of several zoogeographical, entomological, phytopathological, and eco-climatological studies.

Collecting localities:

E.g. Centr. Java: G. Moeriah, Djolong Estate (June 1939).

collections:

Herb. Leiden [L] and Herb. Bog. [BO], few plants.

ANT TAXONOMY

TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS

Betrem, J. G. 1926. De mierenfauna van Meijendel. Levende Nat. 31: 211-220

Betrem, J. G. 1953. Enkele opmerkingen omtrent de soorten van de Formica rufa-groep (Hym.). Entomol. Ber. (Amst.) 14: 322-326

Betrem, J. G. 1954. De satermier (Formica exsecta Nyl., 1846) en enkele van haar problemen (Hym. Form.). Entomol. Ber. (Amst.) 15: 224-230

Betrem, J. G. 1955a. On some ant types of Fabricius. Entomol. Ber. (Amst.) 15: 291-293

Betrem, J. G. 1955b. De systematische plaats van Formica congerens ab. thijssei Stärcke (Hym., Form.). Entomol. Ber. (Amst.) 15: 391-393

Betrem, J. G. 1960a. Formica truncorum F. niet inheems. Entomol. Ber. (Amst.) 20: 130-134

Betrem, J. G. 1960b. Ueber die Systematik der Formica rufa-gruppe. Tijdschr. Entomol. 103: 51-81

Betrem, J. G. 1962a. Quelques remarques sur l'identité de la Formica nigricans. Entomol. Ber. (Amst.) 22: 38

REFERENCE

Achtenberg (1982). Johan George Betrem (1899-1980). Sphecos 5: 15-18.

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

Authors

Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists