Taylor, Brian



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 211, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K. E-mail dr.brian.taylor@ntlworld.com

BRIAN TAYLOR holds the degrees of Bachelor of Technology in Applied Biology (1966) and Doctor of Philosophy in Biology (1969) from Brunel University, where he was the first to gain the latter degree. His earlier education was at the Willesden County Grammar School and Mill Hill School.

After being a Licentiate (1962), then Member (1969), he is now a Fellow (1990) of the Society of Biology (former Institute of Biology), and a Chartered Biologist.

Since 1972, he has been a Fellow of The Royal Entomological Society of London.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Aldawood, Sharaf & Taylor 2011.pdf|Aldawood, A.S., Sharaf, M.R. & Taylor, B. 2011. First record of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 from Saudi Arabia with a description of a new species, C. abuhurayri sp. n. ZooKeys 92: 61-69. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor 2011.pdf| Sharaf, M. R.; Aldawood, S. A.; Taylor, B. 2011. The formicine ant genus Plagiolepis Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula, with description of two new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 137:203-215. [2011-03] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor 2012.pdf| Sharaf, M.R., Aldawood, A.S. & Taylor, B. 2012. A new ant species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 from Saudi Arabia, with a revised key to the Arabian species. PloS ONE 7(2): e30811. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030811. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Sharaf & Taylor 2009.pdf|Sharaf, M. R.; Taylor, B. 2009. The queen of Monomorium dentatum Sharaf, 2007 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 45:95-96. [2010-11-30] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Klingenberg et al 2009.pdf|Sharaf, M. R., B. Taylor and C. Klingenberg. 2009. Ants of the genus Solenopsis Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Egypt with a description of the worker castes of S. cooperi Donisthorpe, 1947. Zootaxa 2004: 49-58. PDf]]


 * Taylor, B. (1975). The role of an entomologist in the International Black Pod Research Project. pp. 52-55 in Proceedings of the 4th Conference of West African Cocoa Entomologists (Legon, Ghana), 1974.


 * [[Media:Taylor 1976.pdf|Taylor, B. 1976. Ants of the Nigerian Forest Zone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). I. Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, Pseudomyrmecinae. Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria Technical Bulletin Series, 4, 1-41. PDF]]


 * Taylor, B. 1977. The ant mosaic on cocoa and other tree crops in western Nigeria. Ecological Entomology 2:245-255.


 * [[Media:Taylor 1978.pdf|Taylor, B. 1978. Ants of the Nigerian Forest Zone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). II. Formicinae, Dolichoderinae. Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria Research Bulletin, 5, 1-57. PDF]]


 * [[Media:B Taylor 1979 (1).pdf|Taylor, B. 1979. Ants of the Nigerian Forest Zone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). III. Myrmicinae (Cardiocondylini to Meranoplini). Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria Research Bulletin, 6, 1-65. PDF]]


 * [[Media:B Taylor 1980a.pdf|Taylor, B. 1980a. Ants of the Nigerian Forest Zone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). IV. Myrmicinae (Myrmecinini to Tetramoriini). Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria Research Bulletin, 7, 1-63. PDF]]


 * [[Media:B Taylor 1980b.pdf|Taylor, B. 1980b. Ants of the Nigerian Forest Zone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). V. Dorylinae, Leptanillinae. Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria Research Bulletin, 8, 1-33. PDF]]


 * Taylor, B. (1981). Ant species recorded on cocoa trees in Western Nigeria. pp. 182-184, in Gregory, P.H. & Maddison, A.C. (Eds) Epidemiology of Phytophthora on Cocoa in Nigeria. Phytopathological Paper No. 25, Commonwealth Mycological Institute.


 * Taylor, B. & Adedoyin, S.F. (1978). The abundance and inter-specific relations of common ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on cocoa farms in Western Nigeria. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 68, 105-121.