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Heterick, Brian E.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Associate Lecturer Department of Environment and Agriculture School of Science Faculty of Science and Engineering Curtin University of Technology GPO Box U1987 PERTH WA 6845
Telephone: +061 08 9266 3598 Fax: +061 08 9266 2495 email: B.Heterick@Curtin.edu.au
Telephone: +061 08 9266 3598 Fax: +061 08 9266 2495 email: B.Heterick@Curtin.edu.au
I balance both academic and research responsibilities. On the academic side, I am an associate lecturer and assist in other academic supervision and demonstrating as required. My research background is primarily taxonomic and my special area of interest is the taxonomy of ants. However, I have also published in the areas of biodiversity and insect ecology.
Most of my research activities are those involved with Australian ants. Apart from my taxonomic studies, I have also frequently collaborated with academics, other researchers, mining companies and other groups and individuals. These are generally those who are involved with monitoring programs, using ants as biological indicators. My major research output has been two monographs on the ant genus Monomorium, and another monograph, on the ant fauna of south-western Australia. I also spent two years as a research fellow in San Francisco studying Monomorium from Madagascar. My most recent research has been undertaken on the back of a CSIRO postdoctoral fellowship. This has involved collaborative work that has resulted in a major paper on the revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex. The revision is undergoing its finishing touches at the time of writing.
My main current focus is the systematics and biology of the important Australian ant genus Iridomyrmex, in which I am involved in a partnership with CSIRO as a post-doctoral fellow. Now that this research has been virtually completed, I have switched my attention to another major ant genus, Melophorus, about which little is known. I have also collaborated with the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) to produce a major paper on the ants of the Pilbara (see below). A further ongoing link is with the California Academy of Sciences and their own ant research program. My quieter moments are spent curating and upgrading the large departmental Ant Collection held in the Environmental Biology Department
PUBLICATIONS
- Heterick, B.E. 2001. Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Monomorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebr. Taxon. 15: 353-459.
- Heterick, B.E. 2003. Two new Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), including a highly distinctive species. Australian Journal of Entomology. 42:249-253.
- Heterick, B.E. 2005. Identity of Monomorium occidaneum Crawley, a species inquirenda, and status of Monomoriun micron Crawley (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Entomol. 44: 150-151.
- Heterick, B.E. 2006. A revision of the Malagasy ants belonging to genus Monomorium Mayr, 1855. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 57:69-202.
- Heterick, B.E. 2008. A revision of the Malagasy ants belonging to the genus Monomorium Mayr, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) amendment. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Volume: 59 Issue: 14-20 Page(s): 719-722.
- Heterick, B.E. 2009. A guide to the ants of South-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 76: 1-206. Part 1.
- Heterick, B.E. 2009. A guide to the ants of South-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 76: 1-206. Part 2.
- Heterick, B.E., Durrant, B., Gunawardene, N.R. 2010. The ant fauna of the Pilbara Bioregion, Western Australia Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 78: 157-167.
- Heterick, B.E., Kitching, R.L. 2022. The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of a one-hectare plot of lowland dipterocarp forest. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 158(4), 261–272 (doi:10.31184/m00138908.1584.4153).
- Heterick, B.E., Shattuck, S.O. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex. Zootaxa 2845: 1-175.
- Majer, J.D., Heterick, B.E. 2015. Invasive ants on the Australian mainland - the other 24 species. XXII Simposio de Mirmecologia, Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil.
- Shattuck, S.O., Gunawardene, N.G., Heterick, B. 2012. A revision of the ant genus Probolomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Proceratiinae) in Australia and Melanesia. Zootaxa 3444: 40–50.