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^{[citation needed]}:

• Anochetus boltoni
• Daceton boltoni
• Loweriella boltoni
• Meranoplus boltoni
• Monomorium 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^{[dead link]}
• Bolton's publications. List of publications and pdfs at antbase.org.

References[]

External links[]

• Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World
• Russian myrmecologists