Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Michael Vaughan Brian (1919-1990)

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Michael Vaughan, called 'MVB'], 1919-1990. Entomologist and ecologist, author of Ants (1977). Lifelong student of social insects as lecturer in zoology at Glasgow University 1946-53 and officer-in-charge of Furzebrook Research Station 1953-82. 'A true intellectual', developed use of statistics and conceptual ecology as well as advancing his own special subject: the ecology and behaviour of British ants. OBE (1982). Painter and pianist; keen gardener and beekeeper. Bearded, guarded expression; 'a modest man with a retiring disposition.' Loved gossip, but kept close about his own (several-times married) life.

ANT TAXONOMY

 

PUBLICATIONS

Brian, M. V.; Brian, A. D. 1949. Observations on the taxonomy of the ants Myrmica rubra L. and M. laevinodis Nylander. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae.). Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 100: 393-409

REFERENCE

Elmes, G.W. & D.J. Stradling. 1991. Insectes Sociaux 38: 331-332, portrait.

Maurren, P. 1995. The New Naturalists. 305pp. London. p. 246.

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