Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Hans Heinrich Justus Carl Erns Brauns (1857-1929)

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Medical doctor who emigrated to South Africa from Germany and spent many years collecting mainly Hymenoptera.

Collected particularly Hymenoptera but other groups as well. Specimens are mainly in the Transvaal Museum but are also in the South African Museum (eminating from Arnold's collection mainly) and other collections. Bombyliid type(s) in Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary, and Natal Museum  - information supplied by N. Evenhuis.

ANT TAXONOMY

 

PUBLICATIONS

Brauns, J. 1901. Ueber die Lebensweise von Dorylus und Aenietus [sic]. (Hym.). Z. Syst. Hymenopterol. Dipterol. 1: 14-17

Brauns, J. 1903. Ueber das Weibchen von Dorylus (Rhogmus) fimbriatus Shuck. (Hym.). Z. Syst. Hymenopterol. Dipterol. 3: 294-298

REFERENCE

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