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 three encyclopaedic global works, including the Identification Guide to Ant Genera (1994), a full catalogue of ant taxa (1995, updated in 2007), and a synopsis and classification (2003). Now retired, Bolton is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and Myrmecologist, Biodiversity Division, Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London.

Recognition

In honor of B. Bolton called about 20 species of ants.

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.

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