Kiran, Kadri
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Date and place of Birth:
28 January 1974, Stuttgart, Göppingen - Germany
Current Institution: Trakya University.
Full Address:
Trakya University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biology
22030 Edirne
Turkey
ANT TAXONOMY
Taxonomic and Faunistic study on the ants of Western Taurus Mountains-Turkey.
MS: The Vertical Distribution of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Samanli Mountains, Iznik.
PhD: Revision of the Ant Genus Aphaenogaster Mayr, 1853 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in Turkey.
PUBLICATIONS
- Aktaç, N., Kiran, K. 2004. A new harvester ant from Turkey: Oxyopomyrmex krueperi Forel, 1911 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceeding of 17th National Congress of Biology, Zoology Section 21-24 June, Adana, Turkey (In Turkish)
- Aktaç, N., Kiran, K. 2007. Faunal Composition of Turkish Ants. 2nd Central European Workshop of Myrmecology, CEW. 17-19 May, Szeged, Hungary
- Aktaç, N., Radchenko, A.G., Kiran, K. 2004. On the taxonomy of the West Palaearctic Aenictinae ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 54(2): 361-364.
- Karaman, C., Aktaç, N., Kiran, K. 2011. Ants of the genus Camponotus Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Kaz Mountains, Turkey, with descriptions of sexuals of Camponotus candiotes Emery, 1894 and Camponotus ionius Emery, 1920. Turkish Journal of Zoology 35:183-197.
- Karaman, C., Kiran, K., Aksoy, V., Camlitepe, Y. 2015. First record of the South European rare parasitic ant species Camponotus universitatis Forel (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Asia. Journal of the Entomological Research Society 17(1):45-49.
- Kiran, K., Aktac, N. 2007. The social parasitic ant Plagiolepis xene STÄRCKE, 1936 new to Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 10: 110.
- Kiran, K., Aktaç, N., Tezcan, S. 2008. Three new species of ants, genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Turkey. Biologia 63 (5): 689-695.
- Kiran, K., Alipanah, H. & Paknia, O. 2013. A new species of the ant genus Aphaenogaster Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Asian Myrmecology 5, 45-51.
- Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548: 1-38.
- Kiran, K., Karaman, C., Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Aksoy, V. 2017. Two new species of the “ultimate” parasitic ant genus Teleutomyrmex Kutter, 1950 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Western Palaearctic. Myrmecological News 25: 145–155.
- Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2014. First records of Temnothorax flavicornis (Emery, 1870) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Bulgaria and Turkey. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 66(4), 571-574.