Wehner, Rüdiger

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
University of Zurich Institute of Zoology Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH-8057 Zurich / Switzerland Phone:++41 (0)44 635 48 31 Fax:++41

1960 - 1967 Undergraduate and graduate studies in Zoology, Botany, Physics (BA level), Chemistry, and Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt/M, Germany 1966 Civil-service examination in Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, and Philosophy ("with distinction") 1967 Ph.D. thesis ("summa cum laude"), Institute of Zoology, University of Frankfurt/M, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Lindauer. "Zur Physiologie des Formensehens bei der Biene (Apis mellifera): Winkelunterscheidung an frontal gebotenen Streifenmustern bei variabler Lage der Musterebene im Schwerefeld" (Wehner, R.: Pattern recognition in bees. Nature 215, 1244-1248, 1967)

TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS

 * Wehner, R. 1983. Taxonomie, Funktionsmorphologie und Zoogeographie der saharischen Wüstenameise Cataglyphis fortis (Forel 1902) stat. nov. (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Senckenb. Biol. (n.s.) 64: 89-132


 * Wehner, R. 1986. Visuelle Orientierung bei Wüstenameisen: Art- und kastenspezifische Mechanismen. Jahrb. Akad. Wiss. Lit. Mainz 1986: 107-112


 * Wehner, R.; Harkness, R. D.; Schmid-Hempel, P. 1983. Foraging strategies in individually searching ants, Cataglyphis bicolor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Information processing in animals. Volume 1. Stuttgart: G. Fischer, 79 pp.


 * Wehner, R.; Wehner, S.; Agosti, D. 1994. Patterns of biogeographic distribution within the bicolor species group of the North African desert ant, Cataglyphis Foerster 1850 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Senckenb. Biol. 74: 163-191