Wing, Merle Wesley (1919-1983)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
B.S. with distinction '39, University of Maine. Major: Entomology Minor: Zoology.

Department of Zoology and Entomology, N.C. State College, Raleigh, North Carolina.

University of Minnesota Ph.D. 1967 Thesis: A Taxonomic Revision of the Nearctic Genus Acanthomyops Mayr. Major Adviser: E. F. Cook.

In 1968 he was an assistant professor at Slippery Rock University, PA.

He was a Professor of Biology at Geneva College, Beaver Falls for 14 years.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Smith & Wing 1955.pdf|Smith, M. R.; Wing, M. W. 1955 [1954]. Redescription of Discothyrea testacea Roger, a little-known North American ant, with notes on the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 62: 105-112 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Smith 1939.pdf|Wing, M. W. 1939. An annotated list of the ants of Maine (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 50: 161-165. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Wing 1947.pdf|Wing, M. W. 1947. A proposed bibliography and catalogue of world Formicidae. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 18:467-468. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Wing 1949.pdf|Wing, M. W. 1949. A new Formica from northern Maine, with a discussion of its supposed type of social parasitism (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Can. Entomol. 81: 13-17 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Wing 1950 list.pdf|Wing, M. W. 1950. An address list of the myrmecologists of the world. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 21:417-432. [1950-12-30] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Wing 1968a.pdf|Wing, M. W. 1968a. Taxonomic revision of the Nearctic genus Acanthomyops (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mem. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Stn. 405: 1-173 PDF]]


 * Wing, M. W. 1968b. A taxonomic revision of the Nearctic genus Acanthomyops Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [Abstract.]. Dissertation Abstracts. B. Sciences and Engineering 28:3934.