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Adlerz, Gottfrid Agaton (1858-1918)
| Gottfrid Agaton Adlerz | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
25 February 1858 Vadstena, Sweden |
| Died |
11 November 1918 (aged 60) Norrköping, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Gottfrid Agaton Adlerz was a Swedish zoologist and entomologist, who became an associate professor at Stockholm University 1889 and lecturer in Sundsvall from 1894. He argued inter alia that even the animals had been "understanding", they could "learn" and "draw conclusions".
Adlerz published on gynandromorphs and on inquiline ants. He may have been the first to report tandem running in ants; and the tandem run he described apparently involved a Leptothorax slave leading a Harpagoxenus sublaevis slave maker during a nest emigration.
A Swedish entomologist who received a Ph.D. from the University of Uppsala in 1887 on Swedish ants and their living conditions. He was appointed associate professor in 1889. In 1905 he became a member of the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was known as one the most prominent entomologists at the time.
ANT TAXONOMY
Adlerz described a new ant species, Formica suecica and described queens and males of Harpagoxenus sublaevis.
PUBLICATIONS
- Adlerz, G. 1885 ("1884"). Myrmecologiska studier. I. Formicoxenus nitidulus Nyl. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 41(8):43-64. [1885]
- Adlerz, G. 1886. Myrmecologiska studier. II. Svenska myror och deras lefnadsförhållanden. Bih. K. Sven. Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. 11(1 18: 1-329
- Adlerz, G. 1887a. Myrmecologiska notiser. Entomologisk Tidskrift 8:41-50. [1887]
- Adlerz, G. 1887b. Notices myrmécologiques. Entomologisk Tidskrift 8:155-165. [1887]Translation of Adlerz (1887a).
*Adlerz, G. 1895. Om en myrliknande svensk spindel. Entomologisk Tidskrift 16:249-253. [1895-11-15]
- Adlerz, G. 1896a. Myrmecologiska notiser. Entomologisk Tidskrift 17:129-141. [1896-08-26]
- Adlerz, G. 1896b. Myrmekologiska Studier. 3. Tomognathus sublaevis Mayr. Bihang till Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 21 (4): 1-76. [1896.]
- Adlerz, G. 1902. Myrmecologiska Studier. IV. Formica suecica n. sp., Eine neue schwedische Ameise. Öfvers. K. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. Stockh. 59: 263-265.
- Adlerz, G. 1908. Zwei Gynandromorphen von Anergates atratulus Schenck. Ark. Zool. 5(2 2: 1-6)
- Adlerz, G. 1914. Formica fusca-picea Nyl., en torfmossarnas myra. Arkiv för Zoologi 8(26):1-5. [1914-02-07]
REFERENCES
- Aurivillius, C. 1919. Entomologisk Tidskrift Uppsala 40:65-71, bibliography, portrait.
- Creighton, W. S. 1927. The slave-raids of Harpagoxenus americanus. Psyche (Camb.) 34: 11-29
- Stuart, R.J. 1986. An Early Record of Tandem Running in Leptothoracine Ants: Gottfrid Adlerz, 1896. Psyche (Camb.) 93:103-106.