Buschinger, Alfred

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Prof. Dr. Alfred Buschinger

Contact:

Rossbergring 18, D-64354 Reinheim Germany

E-mail: a-buschinger@t-online.de

Main Fields of Research:

Social insects, Hymenoptera: Formicidae; behavior and evolution. Social parasitism in ants. Queen polymorphism in ants. Monogyny, polygyny and related social structures. Ecto- and endoparasites of ants.

As a retired person I cannot do much research. I have been overlooking the growing field of pet-ant keeping and pet ant trade via internet companies. In cooperation with the Deutsche Ameisenschutzwarte (DASW), I had applied to the German government to develop a legal restriction of importation and trading of ants (Formicidae) from foreign countries (Europe and overseas). However, in 2006 the responsible BfN (Bundesamt für Naturschutz) at our Ministry of Environment has declined our application with respect to EU-rules: It is said to be too difficult to achieve any restrictions of international trading among EU-countries.

TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS

• Alloway, T. M.; Buschinger, A.; Talbot, M.; Stuart, R.; Thomas, C. 1983 ("1982"). Polygyny and polydomy in three North American species of the ant genus Leptothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 89:249-274. [1983-04-27]
• Blatrix R., Lebas C., Wegnez P., Galkowski C., Buschinger A., 2013. New data on the distribution of Leptothorax pacis and L. kutteri, two very rare parasitic ants, and confirmation of the presence of L. gredleri in France (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revue de l’Association Roussillonnaise d’Entomologie, 22, 85-91.
• Buschinger, A. 1966a [1965]. Leptothorax (Mychothorax) kutteri n. sp., eine sozialparasitische Ameise (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insectes Soc. 12: 327-334.
• Buschinger, A. 1966c. Leptothorax (Mychothorax) muscorum Nylander und Leptothorax (M.) gredleri Mayr zwei gute Arten. Insectes Soc. 13: 165-172.
• Buschinger, A. 1972a. Kreuzung zweier sozialparasitischer Ameisenarten, Doronymyrmex pacis Kutter und Leptothorax kutteri Buschinger (Hym., Formicidae). Zool. Anz. 189: 169-179
• Buschinger, A. 1979a. Functional monogyny in the American guest ant Formicoxenus hirticornis (Emery) (= Leptothorax hirticornis), (Hym., Form.). Insectes Soc. 26: 61-68.
• Buschinger, A. 1979b. Doronomyrmex pocahontas n. sp., a parasitic ant from Alberta, Canada (Hym. Formicidae). Insectes Soc. 26: 216-222.
• Buschinger, A. 1981. Biological and systematic relationships of social parasitic Leptothoracini from Europe and North America. Pp. 211-222 in: Howse, P. E., Clement, J.-L. (eds.) Biosystematics of social insects. Systematics Association Special Volume No. 19. London: Academic Press, 346 pp.
• Buschinger, A. 1982. Epimyrma goesswaldi Menozzi 1931 = Epimyrma ravouxi (André 1896). Morphologischer und biologischer Nachweis der Synonymie (Hym., Formicidae). Zool. Anz. 208: 352-358.
• Buschinger, A. 1983 [1982]. Leptothorax faberi n. sp., an apparently parasitic ant from Jasper National Park, Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 89: 197-209.
• Buschinger, A. 1987b. Synonymy of Leonomyrma Arnoldi 1968 with Chalepoxenus Menozzi 1922 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 94: 117-126.
• Buschinger, A. 1989a. Evolution, speciation, and inbreeding in the parasitic ant genus Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). J. Evol. Biol. 2: 265-283.
• Buschinger, A. 1989b. Workerless Epimyrma kraussei Emery 1915, the first parasitic ant of Crete. Psyche (Cambridge) 96:69-74. [1989-12-18]
• Buschinger, A. 1990b. Sympatric speciation and radiative evolution of socially parasitic ants - Heretic hypotheses and their factual background. Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch. 28: 241-260.
• Buschinger, A. 1995. Life history of the parasitic ant Epimyrma bernardi Espadaler, 1982. Spixiana 18: 75-81. [1.iii.1995.]
• Buschinger, A. 1997. Socially parasitic formicoxenine ants from Western Europe - a review. Proceedings of the International Colloquia on Social Insects (Russian Language section of the IUSSI, V.E. Kipyatkov, ed.) 3-4: 1-9.
• Buschinger, A. 1997. Vorkommen der sozialparasitischen Ameise Myrmica microrubra in Hessen (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Hessische Faunistische Briefe 16 (4): 49-57.
• Buschinger, A. 2005. Experimental Evidence for Genetically Mediated Queen Polymorphism in the Ant species Myrmecina graminicola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologia Generalis 27: 185-200.
• Buschinger, A. 2009. Social parasitism among ants: a review (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 12: 219-235.
• Buschinger, A. 2010. Nest relocation in the ant Myrmecina graminicola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 13: 147-149.
• Buschinger, A. 2011: Queen polymorphism in an Australian ant, Monomorium cf. rubriceps MAYR, 1876 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 15: 63-66.
• Buschinger, A., Cagniant, H., Erhardt, W., & Heinze, J. 1989. Chalepoxenus brunneus, a workerless "degenerate slave-maker" ant. Psyche 95 (1988): 253-264. [13.vi.1989.]
• Buschinger, A.; Ehrhardt, W.; Fischer, K. 1981. Doronomyrmex pacis, Epimyrma stumperi und E. goesswaldi (Hym., Formicidae) neu für Frankreich. Insectes Sociaux 28:67-70. [1981-03]
• Buschinger, A.; Ehrhardt, W.; Fischer, K.; Ofer, J. 1988. The slave-making ant genus Chalepoxenus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). I. Review of literature, range, slave species. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Ökol. Geogr. Tiere 115: 383-401.
• Buschinger, A.; Fischer, K.; Guthy, H. P.; Jessen, K.; Winter, U. 1987 [1986]. Biosystematic revision of Epimyrma kraussei, E. vandeli, and E. foreli (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 93: 253-276.
• Buschinger, A. & Francoeur, A. 1983. The guest ant Symmyrmica chamberlini, rediscovered near Salt Lake City, Utah. Psyche 90: 297-306. [9.xii.1983.]
• Buschinger, A.; Francoeur, A. 1992 [1991]. Queen polymorphism and functional monogyny in the ant, Leptothorax sphagnicolus Francoeur. Psyche (Camb.) 98: 119-133 [1992-II-07]
• Buschinger, A.; Francoeur, A.; Fischer, K. 1981 [1980]. Functional monogyny, sexual behavior, and karyotype of the guest ant, Leptothorax provancheri Emery (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 87: 1-12.
• Buschinger, A.; Heinze, J. 1993. Doronomyrmex pocahontas: not a workerless parasite but still an enigmatic taxon (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insectes Soc. 40: 423-432.
• Buschinger, A.; Jessen, K.; Cagniant, H. 1990. The life history of Epimyrma algeriana, a slave-making ant with facultative polygyny (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zool. Beitr. (N.F.) 33: 23-49.
• Buschinger, A.; Linksvayer, T. A. 2004. Novel blend of life history traits in an inquiline ant, Temnothorax minutissimus, with description of the male (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecol. Nachr. 6: 67-76.
• Buschinger, A., Peeters, C. & Crozier, R.H. 1990. Life-pattern studies on an Australian Sphinctomyrmex: functional polygyny, brood periodicity and raiding behavior. Psyche 96 (1989): 287-300. [1990.]
• Buschinger, A. and A. Schulz. 2008. Leptothorax athabasca sp.n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Alberta, Canada, an ant with an apparently restricted range. Myrmecologische Nachrichten 11: 243-248.
• Buschinger, A.; Schumann, R. D.; Heinze, J. 1994. First records of the guest ant Formicoxenus quebecensis Francoeur from western Canada (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 101:53-57. [1994-06-28]
• Buschinger, A.; Winter, U. 1985. Life history and male morphology of the workerless parasitic ant Epimyrma corsica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. Gen. 10: 65-75.
• Buschinger, A.; Winter, U.; Faber, W. 1984 [1983]. The biology of Myrmoxenus gordiagini Ruzsky, a slave-making ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 90: 335-342.
• Buschinger, A.; Pfeifer, E. 1988:Effects of nutrition on brood production and slavery in ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insectes Soc. 35, 61-69. (Comparing Bhatkar-Whitcomb diet with a traditional insect and honey diet).
• Dekoninck, W.; Vankerkhoven, F.; Buschinger, A. 2012: A misunderstood instance of teratology in Belgian Leptothorax acervorum (Fabricius, 1793) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Bondroit collection. Bulletin de la Société royale belge d’Entomologie 148, 16-19.
• Douwes, P.; Jessen, K.; Buschinger, A. 1988. Epimyrma adlerzi sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Greece: morphology and life history. Entomol. Scand. 19: 239-249.
• Francoeur, A.; Loiselle, R.; Buschinger, A. 1984. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Formicoxenus (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). [Abstract.] P. 528 in: XVII International Congress of Entomology. Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, August 20-26, 1984. Abstract Volume. Hamburg: XVII International Congress of Entomology, 960 pp. [1984-VIII-10] in Zool. Record (1984). New combinations and new species (nomen nudum?) here that predate Francoeur, Loiselle & Buschinger (1985).
• Francoeur, A.; Loiselle, R.; Buschinger, A. 1985. Biosystématique de la tribu Leptothoracini (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). 1. Le genre Formicoxenus dans la région holarctique. Nat. Can. (Qué.) 112: 343-403.
• Heinze, J.; Buschinger, A. 1987. Queen polymorphism in a non-parasitic Leptothorax species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insectes Soc. 34: 28-43.
• Loiselle, R.; Francouer, A.; Fischer, K.; Buschinger, A. 1990. Variations and taxonomic significance of the chromosome numbers in the Nearctic species of the genus Leptothorax (s.s.) (Formicidae: Hymenoptera). Caryologia 43: 321-334.
• Mackay, W. P.; Buschinger, A. 2002. A new species of the ant genus Leptothorax (subgenus Myrafant) from Alberta, Canada. Sociobiology 40: 539-545
• Maschwitz, U.; Dorow, W. H. O.; Buschinger, A.; Kalytta, G. 2000. Social parasitism involving ants of different subfamilies: Polyrhachis lama (Formicinae) an obligatory inquiline of Diacamma sp. (Ponerinae) in Java. Insectes Soc. 47: 27-35.
• Maschwitz, U.; Dorow, W. H. O.; Schellerich-Kaaden, A. L.; Buschinger, A.; Azarae, H. I. 2000. Cataulacus muticus Emery 1889 a new case of a southeast Asian arboreal ant, non-mutualistically specialized on giant bamboo. Senckenb. Biol. 80: 165-173.
• Maschwitz, U.; Go, C.; Dorow, W. H. O.; Buschinger, A.; Kohout, R. J. 2003. Polyrhachis loweryi (Formicinae): a guest ant parasitizing Rhytidoponera sp. (Ponerinae) in Queensland, Australia. Insectes Soc. 50: 69-76.
• Petersen-Braun, M.; Buschinger, A. 1975: Entstehung und Funktion eines thorakalen Kropfes bei Formiciden-Königinnen. Insectes Sociaux 22: 51-66 (Development and function of a thoracic crop in ant queens)
• Sanetra, M.; Buschinger, A. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among social parasites and their hosts in the ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Eur. J. Entomol. 97: 95-117.

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