Alfred Buschinger
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Main Fields of Research:
Social insects, behavior and evolution. Social parasitism in ants. Queen polymorphism in ants. Monogyny, polygyny and related social structures. Ecto- and endoparasites of ants.
Hymenoptera: Formicidae; Sociobiology; Monogyny; Polygyny; Caste-polymorphism; Social parasitism.
As a retired person I cannot do much research. I am overlooking the growing field of pet-ant keeping and pet ant trade via internet companies. I am also applying, in cooperation with the Deutsche Ameisenschutzwarte (DASW), to the German government to develop a legal restriction of the importation and trading of ants (Formicidae) from foreign countries (Europe and overseas).
ANT TAXONOMY
TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS
Buschinger, A. 1966a [1965]. Leptothorax (Mychothorax) kutteri n. sp., eine sozialparasitische Ameise (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insectes Soc. 12: 327-334
Buschinger, A. 1966c. Leptothorax (Mychothorax) muscorum Nylander und Leptothorax (M.) gredleri Mayr zwei gute Arten. Insectes Soc. 13: 165-172
Buschinger, A. 1972a. Kreuzung zweier sozialparasitischer Ameisenarten, Doronymyrmex pacis Kutter und Leptothorax kutteri Buschinger (Hym., Formicidae). Zool. Anz. 189: 169-179
Buschinger, A. 1979a. Functional monogyny in the American guest ant Formicoxenus hirticornis (Emery) (= Leptothorax hirticornis), (Hym., Form.). Insectes Soc. 26: 61-68
Buschinger, A. 1979b. Doronomyrmex pocahontas n. sp., a parasitic ant from Alberta, Canada (Hym. Formicidae). Insectes Soc. 26: 216-222
Buschinger, A. 1981. Biological and systematic relationships of social parasitic Leptothoracini from Europe and North America. Pp. 211-222 in: Howse, P. E., Clement, J.-L. (eds.) Biosystematics of social insects. Systematics Association Special Volume No. 19. London: Academic Press, 346 pp.
Buschinger, A. 1982. Epimyrma goesswaldi Menozzi 1931 = Epimyrma ravouxi (André 1896). Morphologischer und biologischer Nachweis der Synonymie (Hym., Formicidae). Zool. Anz. 208: 352-358
Buschinger, A. 1983 [1982]. Leptothorax faberi n. sp., an apparently parasitic ant from Jasper National Park, Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 89: 197-209
Buschinger, A. 1987b. Synonymy of Leonomyrma Arnoldi 1968 with Chalepoxenus Menozzi 1922 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 94: 117-126
Buschinger, A. 1989a. Evolution, speciation, and inbreeding in the parasitic ant genus Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). J. Evol. Biol. 2: 265-283
Buschinger, A. 1990b. Sympatric speciation and radiative evolution of socially parasitic ants - Heretic hypotheses and their factual background. Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch. 28: 241-260
Buschinger, A. 1995. Life history of the parasitic ant Epimyrma bernardi Espadaler, 1982. Spixiana 18: 75-81. [1.iii.1995.]
Buschinger, A. 1997. Socially parasitic formicoxenine ants from Western Europe - a review. Proceedings of the International Colloquia on Social Insects (Russian Language section of the IUSSI, V.E. Kipyatkov, ed.) 3-4: 1-9.
Buschinger, A., Cagniant, H., Erhardt, W., & Heinze, J. 1989. Chalepoxenus brunneus, a workerless "degenerate slave-maker" ant. Psyche 95 (1988): 253-264. [13.vi.1989.]
Buschinger, A.; Ehrhardt, W.; Fischer, K.; Ofer, J. 1988. The slave-making ant genus Chalepoxenus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). I. Review of literature, range, slave species. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Ökol. Geogr. Tiere 115: 383-401
Buschinger, A.; Fischer, K.; Guthy, H. P.; Jessen, K.; Winter, U. 1987 [1986]. Biosystematic revision of Epimyrma kraussei, E. vandeli, and E. foreli (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 93: 253-276
Buschinger, A. & Francoeur, A. 1983. The guest ant Symmyrmica chamberlini, rediscovered near Salt Lake City, Utah. Psyche 90: 297-306. [9.xii.1983.]
Buschinger, A.; Francoeur, A.; Fischer, K. 1981 [1980]. Functional monogyny, sexual behavior, and karyotype of the guest ant, Leptothorax provancheri Emery (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 87: 1-12
Buschinger, A.; Heinze, J. 1993. Doronomyrmex pocahontas: not a workerless parasite but still an enigmatic taxon (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insectes Soc. 40: 423-432
Buschinger, A.; Linksvayer, T. A. 2004. Novel blend of life history traits in an inquiline ant, Temnothorax minutissimus, with description of the male (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecol. Nachr. 6: 67-76
Buschinger, A., Peeters, C. & Crozier, R.H. 1990. Life-pattern studies on an Australian Sphinctomyrmex: functional polygyny, brood periodicity and raiding behavior. Psyche 96 (1989): 287-300. [1990.]
Buschinger. A.; Schulz, A. 2008. Leptothorax athabasca sp.n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Alberta, Canada, an ant with an apparently restricted range. Myrmecological News Volume: 11 Page(s): 243-248
Buschinger, A.; Winter, U. 1985. Life history and male morphology of the workerless parasitic ant Epimyrma corsica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. Gen. 10: 65-75
Buschinger, A.; Winter, U.; Faber, W. 1984 [1983]. The biology of Myrmoxenus gordiagini Ruzsky, a slave-making ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 90: 335-342
Douwes, P.; Jessen, K.; Buschinger, A. 1988. Epimyrma adlerzi sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Greece: morphology and life history. Entomol. Scand. 19: 239-249
Francoeur, A.; Loiselle, R.; Buschinger, A. 1984. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Formicoxenus (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). [Abstract.] P. 528 in: XVII International Congress of Entomology. Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, August 20-26, 1984. Abstract Volume. Hamburg: XVII International Congress of Entomology, 960 pp.
Francoeur, A.; Loiselle, R.; Buschinger, A. 1985. Biosystématique de la tribu Leptothoracini (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). 1. Le genre Formicoxenus dans la région holarctique. Nat. Can. (Qué.) 112: 343-403
Loiselle, R.; Francouer, A.; Fischer, K.; Buschinger, A. 1990. Variations and taxonomic significance of the chromosome numbers in the Nearctic species of the genus Leptothorax (s.s.) (Formicidae: Hymenoptera). Caryologia 43: 321-334
Mackay, W. P.; Buschinger, A. 2002. A new species of the ant genus Leptothorax (subgenus Myrafant) from Alberta, Canada. Sociobiology 40: 539-545
Maschwitz, U.; Dorow, W. H. O.; Buschinger, A.; Kalytta, G. 2000. Social parasitism involving ants of different subfamilies: Polyrhachis lama (Formicinae) an obligatory inquiline of Diacamma sp. (Ponerinae) in Java. Insectes Soc. 47: 27-35
Sanetra, M.; Buschinger, A. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among social parasites and their hosts in the ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Eur. J. Entomol. 97: 95-117
REFERENCE
Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton’s Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.