Bondroit, Jean (1882-1952)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Belgian artist and entomologist. Bondroit, who unhappily was a most unconventional and uncompromising personality ready to support his theories at scientific meetings with the revolver which it has been said he habitually carried in his pocket, seems to have collapsed under the treatment his work received and to have retired into the oblivion which his critics desired. For all its faults, Bondroit's work was a distinct advance in ant taxonomy for it showed, in the rufa group at any rate, where characters other than colour and pilosity could be found, particularly in the until then almost ignored female caste.

ANT TAXONOMY
Bondroit Collection, Institut Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Brussels (Bondroit Coll.).

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Bondroit 1910.pdf|Bondroit, J. 1910 [1909]. Les fourmis de Belgique. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 53: 479-500 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Bondroit 1911a.pdf|Bondroit, J. 1911a. Contribution à la faune de Belgique. Notes diverses. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 55: 8-13 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Bondroit 1912.pdf|Bondroit, J. 1912. Fourmis de Hautes-Fagnes. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 56: 351-352 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Bondroit 1916.pdf|Bondroit, J. 1916. Un nouveau Ponera de France (Hym. Formicidae). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1916: 211-212 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Bondroit 1917a.pdf|Bondroit, J. 1917a. Notes sur quelques Formicidae de France (Hym.). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1917: 174-177 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Bondroit 1917b.pdf|Bondroit, J. 1917b. Diagnoses de trois nouveaux Formica d'Europe (Hym.). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1917: 186-187 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Bondroit 1918.pdf|Bondroit, J. 1918. Les fourmis de France et de Belgique. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 87: 1-174 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Bondroit 1920a.pdf|Bondroit, J. 1920a [1919]. Notes diverses sur des fourmis d'Europe. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 59: 143-158 PDF]]


 * Bondroit, J. 1920b. Supplément aux fourmis de France et de Belgique. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 88: 299-305

REFERENCE

 * Anon. 2001. Notes Faunistiques de Gembloux 44: 57-60, portrait.