Barry Bolton
Barry Bolton is an English myrmecologist, an expert on the classification, systematics, and taxonomy of ants, who long worked at the Natural History Museum, London. He is known especially for monographs on African and Asian ants, and for encyclopaedic global works, including the Identification Guide to Ant Genera (1994), A New General Catalogue of Ants of the World (1995,[1] updated in 2007), Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae (2003), and Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World: 1758-2005 (2007). Now retired, Bolton is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and Myrmecologist, Biodiversity Division, Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London.
Recognition
At least 21 species of ants are named in Bolton's honour:
- Anochetus boltoni
- Anomalomyrma boltoni
- Cataulacus boltoni
- Chimaeridris boltoni
- Cryptomyrmex boltoni
- Daceton boltoni
- Leptanilla boltoni
- Loweriella boltoni
- Meranoplus boltoni
- Monomorium boltoni
- Myrmica boltoni
- Nylanderia boltoni
- Pheidole boltoni
- Plagiolepis boltoni
- Polyrhachis boltoni
- Pristomyrmex boltoni
- Proceratium boltoni
- Stigmatomma boltoni
- Strumigenys boltoni
- Tetramorium boltoni
Literature
- Bolton, B. (1994) Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World, Harvard University Press.
- Bolton, B., Gary Alpert, Philip S. Ward and Piotr Naskrecki (2007). Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World 1758-2005, Harvard University Press.
- Bolton, B. (2003). Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, vol 71., pp. 1–370. Bolton's Synopsis and Classification of Ants of the World
- Bolton's publications. List of publications and pdfs at antbase.org.
References
- Snelling, Roy R. (Summer 1997). "A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World". American Entomologist (Book Review). 43 (2): 127. doi:10.1093/ae/43.2.127.
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