Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Carlos Bruch (1869-1943)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Bruch and Dr. Angel Gallardo published scholarly works on the Argentine fauna in the 1910's to early 1930's, relying primarily on the able European myrmecologists for identifications. No better photographs of ants and their nests exist than those published by Bruch. Of German origin, he had a background as a professional photographer before becoming a professor at the University of La Plata. He vacationed in the Cordoba Hills where he learned much about the rich fauna there and also had correspondents in other parts of the country who sent him specimens.Both Gallardo and Bruch published their last work in the early 1930's.

ANT TAXONOMY

Santschi dedicated a number of ants to Carlos Bruch. Several were attines and he later placed them in other attine genera so that confusion is sometimes possible.

TAXONOMIIC PUBLICATIONS

Bruch, C. 1914. Catálogo sistemático de los formícidos argentinos. Rev. Mus. La Plata 19: 211-234

Bruch, C. 1915. Suplemento al catálogo de los formícidos argentinos. I. (Addenda et corrigenda). Rev. Mus. La Plata 19: 527-537

Bruch, C. 1916. Contribución al estudio de las hormigas de la provincia de San Luis. Rev. Mus. La Plata 23: 291-357

Bruch, C. 1917a. La forma sexuada femenina de Cryptocerus ridiculus Santschi. Physis (B. Aires) 3: 269-270

Bruch, C. 1917b. Costumbres y nidos de hormigas. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 83: 302-316

Bruch, C. 1917d. Hormigas de Catamarca. Physis (B. Aires) 3: 430-433

Bruch, C. 1919. Descripción de una curiosa ponerina de Córdoba Discothyrea neotropica n. sp. Physis (B. Aires) 4: 400-402

Bruch, C. 1921. Estudios mirmecológicos. Rev. Mus. La Plata 26: 175-211

Bruch, C. 1923. Estudios mirmecológicos con la descripción de nuevas especies de dípteros (Phoridae) por los Rr. Pp. H. Schmitz y Th. Borgmeier y de una araña (Gonyleptidae) por el Doctor Mello-Leita~o. Rev. Mus. La Plata 27: 172-220

Bruch, C. 1924a. Descripción de la reina Eciton (Acamatus) Hetschkoi Mayr. Physis (B. Aires) 7: 232-235

Bruch, C. 1924b. Una nueva ponerina Acanthostichus Ramosmexiae n. spec. Physis (B. Aires) 7: 260-261

Bruch, C. 1925b. Macho, larva y ninfa de Acanthostichus ramosmexiae Bruch. Physis (B. Aires) 8: 110-114

Bruch, C. 1925c. Rectificación. Physis (B. Aires) 8: 125

Bruch, C. 1928. Estudios mirmecológicos. An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. B. Aires 34: 341-360

Bruch, C. 1931. Notas biológicas y sistemáticas acerca de Bruchomyrma acutidens Santschi. Rev. Mus. La Plata 33: 31-55

Bruch, C. 1932. Descripción de un género y especie nueva de una hormiga parásita (Formicidae). Rev. Mus. La Plata 33: 271-275

Bruch, C. 1934a. La hembra dictadiforme de Acanthostichus laticornis For. v. obscuridens Sants. (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 6: 3-8

Bruch, C. 1934b. Las formas femeninas de Eciton. Descripción y redescripción de algunas especies de la Argentina. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 118: 113-135

Bruch, C. 1934d. Breves observaciones sobre costumbres de Eciton (Holopone) dulcius For. var. jujuyensis For. y decripción del macho (Hym. Formic.). Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 6: 261-265

REFERENCE

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

Herman, L.H. 2001. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265:49-50, portrait.

Lizer y Trelles, C. A. 1937. La obra entomologica de Don Carlos Bruch.Rev. Soc. ent. Argentina, Buenos Aires Volume: 9 Pages: pp. 13-21 Published: 1937

Portrait, obituary and bibliography by Carlos A. Lizer y Trelles (1943), Rev. Soc. Ent. Argentina, XII, pp 71-85.

Rev. Mus. La Plata (ns) 1943 for a good portrait.

BRUCH, Carlos (1873-1943). Lizer, C., B., Physis (Arg.) 7:213-227, 1924; B. only, Rev. Soc. Ent. Arg. 9:13-21, 1937; Lizer y Trelles, C. A., et al., B., P., Rev). Soc. Ent. Arg. 12:48-56, 71-91, 1943; Lizer y Trelles, C. A., et al., B., P., An. Soc. Cient. Arg. 137:169-183, 1943; Birab6n, M., B., P., Rev. La Plata Univ. Nat. Mus. Secc. Ofic. pp. 107-132, 1943 (1944); Schedl, K. E., Zentralbl. Gesamtgeb. Ent. 1:63, 1946; "C. L. T.," Physis (Arg.): 11:524-525, 1935; A., Physis (Arg) 10:436-438, 1931; Lizer y Trelles, C. A., Curso de Entomolo- gia 1:41-42, 1947.