Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Jean Bondroit (1882-1952)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Belgian artist and entomologist. Bondroit, who unhappily was a most unconventional and uncompromising personality ready to support his theories at scientific meetings with the revolver which it has been said he habitually carried in his pocket, seems to have collapsed under the treatment his work received and to have retired into the oblivion which his critics desired. For all its faults, Bondroit's work was a distinct advance in ant taxonomy for it showed, in the rufa group at any rate, where characters other than colour and pilosity could be found, particularly in the until then almost ignored female caste.

ANT TAXONOMY

Bondroit Collection, Institut Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Brussels (Bondroit Coll.).

PUBLICATIONS

Bondroit, J. 1910 [1909]. Les fourmis de Belgique. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 53: 479-500

Bondroit, J. 1911a. Contribution à la faune de Belgique. Notes diverses. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 55: 8-13

Bondroit, J. 1912. Fourmis de Hautes-Fagnes. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 56: 351-352

Bondroit, J. 1916. Un nouveau Ponera de France (Hym. Formicidae). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1916: 211-212

Bondroit, J. 1917a. Notes sur quelques Formicidae de France (Hym.). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1917: 174-177

Bondroit, J. 1917b. Diagnoses de trois nouveaux Formica d'Europe (Hym.). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1917: 186-187

Bondroit, J. 1918. Les fourmis de France et de Belgique. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 87: 1-174

Bondroit, J. 1920a [1919]. Notes diverses sur des fourmis d'Europe. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 59: 143-158

Bondroit, J. 1920b. Supplément aux fourmis de France et de Belgique. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 88: 299-305

REFERENCE

Anon. 2001. Notes Faunistiques de Gembloux 44: 57-60, portrait.

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