William F. Buren (1916 -1983)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
WILLIAM F. BUREN Department of Entomology University of Florida. Following the death of Buren in 1983, was the acquisition of his collection by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM).
ANT TAXONOMY
PUBLICATIONS
Buren, W. F. 1941b. Lasius (Acanthomyops) plumopilosus, a new ant with plumose hairs from Iowa. Iowa State Coll. J. Sci. 15: 231-235
Buren, W. F. 1942. New ants from Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Iowa State Coll. J. Sci. 16: 399-408
Buren, W. F. 1944a. A list of Iowa ants. Iowa State Coll. J. Sci. 18: 277-312
Buren, W. F. 1944b. A new fungus growing ant from Mexico. Psyche (Camb.) 51: 5-7
Buren, W. F. 1945. Leptothorax longispinosus subsp. iowensis, nom. n. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 47: 288
Buren, W. F. 1950. A new Lasius (Acanthomyops) with a key to North American females. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 52: 184-190
Buren, W. F. 1959 [1958]. A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Part I. J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 66: 119-134
Buren, W. F. 1968a. Some fundamental taxonomic problems in Formica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Ga. Entomol. Soc. 3: 25-40
Buren, W. F. 1968b. A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Part II. Descriptions of new species. J. Ga. Entomol. Soc. 3: 91-121
Buren, W. F. 1972. Revisionary studies on the taxonomy of the imported fire ants. J. Ga. Entomol. Soc. 7: 1-26
Snelling, R. R.; Buren, W. F. 1985. Description of a new species of slave-making ant in the Formica sanguinea group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Great Lakes Entomol. 18: 69-78
Whitcomb, W. H.; Denmark, H. A.; Buren, W. F.; Carroll, J. F. 1972. Habits and present distribution in Florida of the exotic ant, Pseudomyrmex mexicanus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Fla. Entomol. 55: 31-33
REFERENCE
Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton’s Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.