Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Gustaf Johan Billberg (1772-1844)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Gustaf Johan Billberg (June 14, 1772 – November 26, 1844) was a Swedish botanist, zoologist and anatomist.

Billberg was the author of Ekonomisk botanik (1815-16), Enumeratio insectorum in museo (1820) and Synopsis Faunae Scandinaviae (1827).

The plant genus Billbergia was named for him.

ANT TAXONOMY

PUBLICATIONS

Billberg, G. J. 1820. Enumeratio insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg. Stockholm: Gadel, 138 pp.

REFERENCE

Evenhuis, N.L. 1997. Litteratura Taxonomica Dipterorum (1758-1930)1: 93-95, portrait.

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