Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Rüdiger Wehner

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

University of Zurich Institute of Zoology Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH-8057 Zurich / Switzerland Phone:++41 (0)44 635 48 31 Fax:++41

1960 - 1967	Undergraduate and graduate studies in Zoology, Botany, Physics (BA level), Chemistry, and Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt/M, Germany
1966	Civil-service examination in Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, and Philosophy ("with distinction")
1967	Ph.D. thesis ("summa cum laude"), Institute of Zoology, University of Frankfurt/M, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Lindauer. "Zur Physiologie des Formensehens bei der Biene (Apis mellifera): Winkelunterscheidung an frontal gebotenen Streifenmustern bei variabler Lage der Musterebene im Schwerefeld" (Wehner, R.: Pattern recognition in bees. Nature 215, 1244-1248, 1967)

 

ANT TAXONOMY

 

TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS

Wehner, R. 1983. Taxonomie, Funktionsmorphologie und Zoogeographie der saharischen Wüstenameise Cataglyphis fortis (Forel 1902) stat. nov. (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Senckenb. Biol. (n.s.) 64: 89-132

Wehner, R. 1986. Visuelle Orientierung bei Wüstenameisen: Art- und kastenspezifische Mechanismen. Jahrb. Akad. Wiss. Lit. Mainz 1986: 107-112

Wehner, R.; Harkness, R. D.; Schmid-Hempel, P. 1983. Foraging strategies in individually searching ants, Cataglyphis bicolor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Information processing in animals. Volume 1. Stuttgart: G. Fischer, 79 pp.

Wehner, R.; Wehner, S.; Agosti, D. 1994. Patterns of biogeographic distribution within the bicolor species group of the North African desert ant, Cataglyphis Foerster 1850 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Senckenb. Biol. 74: 163-191

REFERENCE

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