Kiran, Kadri

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Date and place of Birth:

28 January 1974, Stuttgart, Göppingen - Germany Current Institution: Trakya University Full Address: Trakya University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Biology 22030 Edirne Country: Turkey

ANT TAXONOMY
Taxonomic and Faunistic study on the ants of Western Taurus Mountains-Turkey.

MS: The Vertical Distribution of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Samanli Mountains, Iznik.

PhD: Revision of the Ant Genus Aphaenogaster Mayr, 1853 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in Turkey.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[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


 * 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


 * [[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]


 * Kiran K, Aktaç N, Tezcan S. (2008) Three new species of ants, genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Turkey. Biologia 63 (5): 689-695.