Baltazar, Clare Rilloraza

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

 * B.S.A. (Entomology), University of the Philippines, 1947


 * M.S. (Economic Entomology), University of Wisconsin, 1950


 * Ph.D. (Systematic Entomology), University of Wisconsin, 1957

Born: November 1, 1927

Year conferred as National Scientist: 2001

Dr. Baltazar has consistently maintained outstandingly high standards of achievement throughout her academic life. Her numerous publications on Philippine insects especially on Philippine Hymenoptera are very significant to science for they lay the groundwork for future biological control in the Philippines. Her book Philippine Insects is the first authoritative text on Philippine insects. Other important contributions of Dr. Baltazar to science are the discoveries of eight and one subgenus of Hymenoptera.

For these achievement, Dr. Baltazar is well recognized here and abroad. In 1980, she received the Rizal Patria Award in entomology.

College of Agriculture University of the Philippines Los Baños

ANT TAXONOMY
A single paper on a checklist of the ants of the Philippines with a few name changes.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Baltazar, C. R. 1966. A catalogue of Philippine Hymenoptera (with a bibliography, 1758-1963). Pac. Insects Monogr. 8: 1-488

REFERENCE

 * Corpuz-Raros, L.A. 1995. Asia Life Science 4:1-13, bibliography, portrait.