Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Kadri Kiran

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Date and place of Birth:

28 January 1974, Stuttgart, Göppingen - Germany

Current Institution:

Trakya University

Full Address:

Trakya University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biology
22030 Edirne

Country:

Turkey

ANT TAXONOMY

Taxonomic and Faunistic study on the ants of Western Taurus Mountains-Turkey.

MS: The Vertical Distribution of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Samanli Mountains, Iznik.

PhD: Revision of the Ant Genus Aphaenogaster Mayr, 1853 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in Turkey.

PUBLICATIONS

Aktaç, Nihat; Radchenko, Alexander G; Kiran, Kadri 2004. On the taxonomy of the West Palaearctic Aenictinae ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 54(2): 361-364

Kiran K, Aktaç N, Tezcan S. (2008) Three new species of ants, genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Turkey. Biologia 63 (5): 689-695.

REFERENCE

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