LIST OF WORLD ANT TAXONOMISTS
Over the last 250 years, approximately 982 taxonomists have authored or co-authored at least one taxonomic paper which has included descriptions or taxonomic name changes within the Formicidae. Barry Bolton has continued to update Bolton' Synopsis of the Formicidae and the Catalogue of the Ants of the World. These two important resources provide the basis for this list of authors. The last update is July 1, 2010.
We have created a separate web page for each author by adding an image if available, a brief biographical note, a brief summary of their ant taxonomic contributions and a list of their ant taxonomic publications. When PDF reprints become available, we will link these papers to each reference. At the moment we have linked 4,000 PDF documents. If you are interested in contributing to this effort, please submit images and text via email to galpert [@] comcast.net and we will add your name to our credit list: Gary D. Alpert, Christian Rabeling, Kari Ryder-Wilkie, Edward O. Wilson, Marek Borowiec, Cesare Baroni Urbani, Robert Taylor, Mostafa Sharaf, Ross Crozier, Alex Wild, David Lubertazzi, Graham Elmes, Jacques Delabie, Himender Bharti, Seiki Yamane, Katsuyuki Eguchi, Alfred Buschinger, Rodrigo Feitosa, Martin Pfeiffer, Antonio Scupola, Brian Heterick, James Trager, Rogerio Silvestre, Archie MacArthur, and Barry Bolton.
Taxonomic reference source: Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton’s Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.
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Mallis, A. 1971. American Entomologists. Rutgers Univ. Press, 549pp.
Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775-1930 with biographical notes on authors and collectors. R. Zool. Soc. New South Wales, viii + 380 pp.
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