Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Herman von Ihering (1850-1930)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Born: Kiel, Germany.
Occupation: Zoologist. Geologist. Malacologist. Director, Museu del Estado den Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Education: Ph.S., University of Berlin and Göttingen, 1876.

ANT TAXONOMY

Original description of Eciton (Acamatus) abstinens which is now a synonym of Neivamyrmex raptor (Forel, 1911)

PUBLICATIONS

Ihering, H. von. 1912.  Biologie und Verbreitung der brasilianischen Arten von Eciton. Entomol. Mitt. 1: 226-235

REFERENCE

Anon. 1977. Natureza em Revista 2: 6-10, portrait.

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