Aktaç, Nihat

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Nihat Aktaç is publishing on the ants of Turkey. Trakya University, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Department of Biology, 22030 Edirne, Turkey; e-mail: nihata@trakya.edu.tr

ANT TAXONOMY
Aktaç has raised several ants from Turkey to species status.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Aktac 1977.pdf|Aktaç, N. 1977 [1976]. Studies on the myrmecofauna of Turkey I. Ants of Siirt, Bodrum and Trabzon. Istanbul Univ. Fen Fak. Mecm. Seri B 41: 115-135.]]


 * Aktaç, N.; Aras, A.; Camlitepe, Y. 1994. Ants of Thracian part of Turkey. Bios (Thessaloniki) 2:203-209. 122159


 * [[Media:Aktac & Kiran 2004.pdf|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)PDF]]


 * Aktaç N, Kiran K (2007) Faunal Composition of Turkish Ants. 2nd Central European Workshop of Myrmecology, CEW. 17-19 May, Szeged, Hungary


 * [[Media:Aktac 2002.pdf|Aktaç, N. & Radchenko, A.G. 2002. Türkiye karincalari cins tani anahtari. Türkiye Entomoloji Dergisi 26: 51-61.]]


 * [[Media:Aktac et al.pdf|Aktaç, Nihat; Radchenko, Alexander G; Kiran, Kadri 2004. On the taxonomy of the West Palaearctic Aenictinae ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 54(2): 361-364 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Baroni Urbani Aktac Camlitepe 1989.pdf|Baroni Urbani, C.; Aktaç, N.; Camlitepe, Y. 1989. Disclosing the mystery of Messor caducus Motschulsky (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 62: 291-301.]]


 * [[Media:Elmes Radchenko Aktac 2002.pdf|Elmes, G.W., Radchenko, A.G. & Aktaç, 2002. Four new Myrmica species from Turkey. Annales Zoologici (Warszawa) 52: 157-171.]]


 * [[Media:Karaman aktac 2013.pdf|Karaman, C.; Aktaç, N. 2013. Descriptions of four new species of Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key for the worker caste of the Camponotus of Turkey. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 86(1):36-56.]]


 * [[Media:Karaman Aktac 2009.pdf|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. [2011-03] PDF]]


 * Kiran, K. & AKTAÇ, N. 2007: The social parasitic ant Plagiolepis xene STÄRCKE, 1936 new to Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). – Myrmecological News 10: 110. pdf [144KB]
 * [[Media:Kiran, Aktac & Tezcan 2008.pdf| Kiran K, Aktaç N, Tezcan S. (2008) Three new species of ants, genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Turkey. Biologia 63 (5): 689-695.]]