Taylor, Robert. W.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Adjunct Professor - Genetics, Ecology & Evolution Research School of Biology Australian National University, Canberra bob.taylor@homemail.com.au

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Dorow 1997.pdf|Dorow, W. H. O.; Kohout, R. J.; Taylor, R. W. 1997. Polyrhachis Smith, 1857 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): proposed precedence over Myrma Billberg, 1820. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 54: 236-241 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Holldobler B 1984 (1983).pdf|Hölldobler, B. & Taylor, R.W. 1984. A behavioral study of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark. Insectes Sociaux 30 (1983): 384-401. [1984.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Imai & Crozier & Taylor 1977.pdf|Imai, H. T.; Crozier, R. H.; Taylor, R. W. 1977. Karyotype evolution in Australian ants. Chromosoma (Berl.) 59: 341-393 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Imai & Taylor 1986.pdf| Imai, H. T.; Taylor, R. W. 1986. The exceptionally low chromosome number n=2 in an Australian bulldog ant Myrmecia piliventris Smith. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 36: 59-61 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Imai Taylor & Crozier 1994.pdf|Imai, H. T.; Taylor, R. W.; Crozier, R. H. 1994. Experimental bases for the minimum interaction theory. I. Chromosome evolution in ants of the Myrmecia pilosula species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Jpn. J. Genet. 69: 137-182 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor et al 1991.pdf|Imai, H. T.; Taylor, R. W.; Kubota, M.; Ogata, K.; Wada, M. Y. 1991 [1990]. Notes on the remarkable karyology of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops, and of the related genus Myrmecia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 97: 133-140.]]


 * [[Media:Kohout & Taylor 1990.pdf|Kohout, R. J.; Taylor, R. W. 1990. Notes on Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith, with a synonymic list of the species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Mem. Qld. Mus. 28: 509-522 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Ogata K Taylor R 1991.pdf|Ogata, K.; Taylor, R. W. 1991. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). J. Nat. Hist. 2 25: 1623-1673 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Ride & Taylor 1973.pdf|Ride, W. D. L.; Taylor, R. W. 1973. Formica maxima Moore, 1842 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): proposed suppression under the plenary powers in accordance with article 23(a-b). Z.N.(S.)2023. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 30: 58-60.]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1958. Original material of the ant Discothyrea antarctica Emery, 1894, in New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist, 2(3): 17.


 * Taylor, R.W. 1959a. The Australian ant Iridomyrmex darwinianus (Forel) recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist, 2(4): 18-19.


 * Taylor, R.W. 1959b. A note on the status of the ant species Monomorium (Notomyrmex) smithii Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). New Zealand Entomologist, 2(4): 20-21.


 * [[Media:Taylor 1960.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1960. Taxonomic notes on the ants Ponera leae Forel and Ponera norfolkensis (Wheeler) (Hymenoptera - Formicidae). Pac. Sci. 14: 178-180.]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1961. Notes and new records of exotic ants introduced into New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist, 2(6):28-37.


 * [[Media:Taylor 1962a.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1962a. New Australian dacetine ants of the genera Mesostruma Brown and Codiomyrmex Wheeler (Hymenoptera-Formicidae). Breviora 152: 1-10.]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1962b. The ants of the Three Kings Islands. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 5:251-254.


 * [[Media:Taylor 1964.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1964. Taxonomy and parataxonomy of some fossil ants (Hymenoptera-Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 71: 134-141 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1965a.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1965a. New Melanesian ants of the genera Simopone and Amblyopone (Hymenoptera-Formicidae) of zoogeographic significance. Breviora 221: 1-11 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1965b.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1965b. The Australian ants of the genus Pristomyrmex, with a case of apparent character displacement. Psyche (Camb.) 72: 35-54 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1965c.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1965c. A new species of the ant genus Dacetinops from Sarawak. Breviora 237: 1-4 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1965d.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1965d. A monographic revision of the rare tropicopolitan ant genus Probolomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 117:345-365. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1966.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1966a [1965]. A second African species of the dacetine ant genus Codiomyrmex. Psyche (Camb.) 72: 225-228 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1966b.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1966b [1965]. Notes on the Indo-Australian ants of genus Simopone Forel (Hymenoptera-Formicidae). Psyche. 72: 287-290.]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1967a.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1967a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pac. Insects Monogr. 13: 1-112 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1967b.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1967b. Entomological survey of the Cook Islands and Niue. 1 - Hymenoptera-Formicidae. N. Z. J. Sci. 1 10: 1092-1095 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1968a.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1968a. Nomenclature and synonymy of the North American ants of the genera Ponera and Hypoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. News 79: 63-66.]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1968b. The Australian workerless inquiline ant, Strumigenys xenos Brown (Hymenoptera - Formicidae) recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist, 4(1): 47-49.


 * [[Media:Taylor 1968c.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1968c. Notes on the Indo-Australian basicerotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 16: 333-348 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1968d.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1968d. A supplement to the revision of Australian Pristomyrmex species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology. 7:63-66. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1968e.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1968e. A new Malayan species of the ant genus Epitritus, and a related new genus from Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology. 7:130-134. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1969.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1969. The identity of Dorylozelus mjobergi Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology. 8: 131-133 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1970a.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1970a. Notes on some Australian and Melanesian basicerotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology. 9: 49-52 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1970b.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1970b. Characterization of the Australian endemic ant genus Peronomyrmex Viehmeyer (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology. 9: 209-211 PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1971. The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Entomologist, 5: 81-82.


 * Taylor, R.W. 1972a. Studies on the Australian ponerine army ant, Onychomyrmex. P. 372 in: Rafes, P. M. (ed.) 1972. XIII International Congress of Entomology, Moscow, 2-9 August, 1968. Proceedings, Volume III. Leningrad: Nauka, 494 pp.


 * Taylor, R.W. 1972b. Biogeography of insects of New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula. Pp. 213-230 in: Walker, D. (ed.) 1972. Bridge and barrier: the natural and cultural history of Torres Strait. Research School of Pacific Studies, Publication BG/3. Canberra: Australian National University, xxii + 437 pp.


 * [[Media:Taylor 1973.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1973. Ants of the Australian genus Mesostruma Brown (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology. 12: 24-38 PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1974. Superfamily Formicoidea. P. 111 in: CSIRO (ed.) 1974. The insects of Australia. Supplement 1974. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, viii + 146 pp.


 * Taylor, R. W. 1976a. The ants of Rennell and Bellona Islands. Nat. Hist. Rennell Isl. Br. Solomon Isl. 7: 73-90


 * Taylor, R.W. 1976b. La faune terrestre de l'Île de Sainte-Hélène. 7. Superfam. Formicoidea. Annales. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. Série in Octavo. Sciences Zoologiques 215:192-199.


 * [[Media:Taylor 1977.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1977. New ants of the Australasian genus Orectognathus, with a key to the known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 25: 581-612 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1978a.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1978a. Nothomyrmecia macrops: a living-fossil ant rediscovered. Science (Wash. D. C.) 201: 979-985 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1978b.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1978b. A taxonomic guide to the ant genus Orectognathus. CSIRO Division of Entomology Report No. 3: 1-11 (plus microfiche). [(31).x.1978.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:RW Taylor 1979.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1979. Melanesian ants of the genus Amblyopone. Australian Journal of Zoology 26 (1978): 823-839. [24.i.1979.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1980.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1980a. New Australian ants of the genus Orectognathus, with summary description of the twenty-nine known species. Australian Journal of Zoology 27 (1979): 773-788. [15.ii.1980.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1980b.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1980b. Australian and Melanesian ants of the genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf - notes and new species. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19: 229-239. [26.ix.1980.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1980c.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1980c. Notes on the Russian endemic ant genus Aulacopone Arnoldi. Psyche 86 (1979): 353-361. [19.xii.1980.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1980d.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1980d. The rare Fijian ant Myrmecina (= Archaeomyrmex) cacabau (Mann) rediscovered. New Zealand Entomologist 7: 122-123. [(31).xii.1980.] PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1983. Descriptive taxonomy: past, present and future. Pp. 93-134 in: Highley, E.; Taylor, R.W.}} (eds.) 1983. Australian systematic entomology: a bicentenary perspective. Melbourne: CSIRO, vii + 147 pp.


 * [[Media:Taylor 1985.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1985. The ants of the Papuasian genus Dacetinops. In Ball, G.E. (Ed.). Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Zoogeography of Beetles and Ants: 41-67. Dordrecht. [(31.xii).1985.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1986.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1986. The quadrinomial infrasubspecific names of Australian ants. General and Applied Entomology 18: 33-37. [10.x.1986.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1987a.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. CSIRO Division of Entomology Report No. 41: 1-92. [(30).vi.1987.] PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1987b. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. (Supplement.) CSIRO Division of Entomology Report No. 41 (supplement): 1-5. [(31).vii.1987.]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1988.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1988. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Caledonian ants of the genus Leptogenys Roger (= Prionogenys Emery, syn. n.). General and Applied Entomology 20: 33-37. [31.vii.1988.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1989a.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1989a. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society. 28: 23-27. [28.ii.1989.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1989b.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1989b. Australian ants of the genus Leptothorax Mayr. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27: 605-610. [13.xi.1989.] PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1990a. In Bolton, B. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae. Systematic Entomology 15: 267-282. [(31).vii.1990.]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1990b.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1990b. New Asian ants of the tribe Basicerotini, with an on-line computer interactive key to the twenty-six known Indo-Australian species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 397-425. [12.x.1990.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1990c.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1990c. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Caledonian ants of the genus Meranoplus Fr. Smith. General and Applied Entomology 22: 31-40. [31.x.1990.] PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1990d. [Untitled. A key to the ant genera of Australia, New Caledonia, and New Zealand.]. Pp. 55-60 in: Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.


 * [[Media:Taylor 1991a.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1991a. Notes on the ant genera Romblonella and Willowsiella, with comments on their affinities, and the first description of Australian species. Psyche 97 (1990): 281-296. [26.ii.1991.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1991b.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1991b. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australasian ants of the Myrmicinae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 599-614. [1.viii.1991.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1991c.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1991c. Myrmecia croslandi sp. n., a karyologically remarkable new Australian jack-jumper ant. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 30: 288. [29.xi.1991.] PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1991d. Formicidae. Pp. 980-989 in CSIRO (ed.) The Insects of Australia (second edition) 2: 543-1137. Melbourne University Press. [1991.]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1992a.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1992a. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Guinean ants of the subfamily Formicinae. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31: 57-69. [28.ii.1992.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1992b.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1992b. Rhoptromyrmex rawlinsoni sp. nov., a new apparently workerless parasitic ant from Anak Krakatau, Indonesia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 53: 125-128. [30.v.1992.] PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 1994. The sociobiology of Nothomyrmecia macrops: considerations regarding the evolution of eusociality among ants. P. 60 in: Lenoir, A.; Arnold, G.; Lepage, M. (eds.) 1994. Les insectes sociaux. 12ème congrès de l'Union Internationale pour l'Étude des Insectes Sociaux. Paris, Sorbonne, 21-27 août 1994. Paris: Université Paris Nord, xxiv + 583 pp.


 * Taylor, R.W. 1999. Nomenclatural changes in the Australian ant genus Podomyrma Fredrick Smith. Sociobiology 34: 173-174. [1999.]


 * [[Media:Taylor 2006.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 2006. Ants of the genus Meranoplus F. Smith, 1853: Three new species and others from northeastern Australian rainforests. Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 8:21-29. PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 2007. Bloody funny wasps! Speculations on the evolution of eusociality in ants. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80: 580-609.


 * [[Media:Taylor 2009.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 2009. Ants of the genus Lordomyrma Emery (1) Generic synonymy, composition and distribution, with notes on Ancyridris Wheeler and Cyphoidris Weber. Zootaxa 1979: 16-28. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 2011.pdf| Taylor, R.W. 2011. Australasian ants of the subfamily Heteroponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): (1) General introduction and review of the Heteroponera leae (Wheeler, 1923) species group, with descriptions of two new species. Myrmecological News 15:117-123. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 2012.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 2012. Ants of the genus Lordomyrma Emery (2) The Japanese L. azumai (Santschi) and six new species from India, Vietnam and the Philippines. Zootaxa 3282: 45-60. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 2015.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 2015. Ants with Attitude: Australian Jack-jumpers of the Myrmecia pilosula species complex, with descriptions of four new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Zootaxa, 3911, 493–520. PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W. 2015. Australasian ants of the subfamily Heteroponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): (2) the species-group of Heteroponera relicta (Wheeler) with descriptions of nine new species and observations on morphology, biogeography and phylogeny of the genus. Zootaxa 3947, 151-180.


 * [[Media:Taylor 2018 Myrmecol News New Metapone from New Caledonia and Vanuatu.pdf |Taylor, R. W. 2018. New species of the ant genus Metapone Forel, 1911: first records from New Caledonia and Vanuatu (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 26:97-100.'''PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor, Alpert 2016 Metapone.pdf|Taylor, R. W.; Alpert, G. D. 2016. The myrmicine ant genus Metapone Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a global taxonomic review with descriptions of twelve new species. Zootaxa 4105(6):501-545. [2016-04-27] PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W.; Beaton, C.D. 1970. Insect systematics and the scanning electron microscope. Search (Sydney) 1:347-348.


 * [[Media:Taylor & Brown 1985.pdf|Taylor, R.W. & Brown, D.R. 1985. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2. Hymenoptera: Formicoidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea: 381 pp. Canberra. [(31.xii).1985.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor & Brown 1978.pdf|Taylor, R. W.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1978. Smithistruma kempfi species nov. Pilot Regist. Zool. Card No. 35. PDF]]


 * Taylor, R.W.; Hasegawa, E.; Imai, H. T.; Kubota, M.; Crozier, R. 2002. Molecular phylogeny of the ant subfamily Myrmeciinae. [Abstract.]. P. 161 in: Billen, J. (ed.) 2002. XIV International Congress of IUSSI. The Golden Jubilee Proceedings. 27 July - 3 August 2002, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Sapporo: XIV International Congress of IUSSI, 233 pp.


 * [[Media:Lowery B and Taylor 1972.pdf|Taylor, R. W.; Lowery, B. B. 1972. The New Guinean species of the ant genus Orectognathus Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology. 11: 306-310. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor & Wilson 1962.pdf|Taylor, R.W. & Wilson, E.O. 1962. Ants from three remote oceanic islands. Psyche 68 (1961): 137-143. [13.iii.1962.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Ward & Taylor 1981.pdf|Ward, P.S. & Taylor, R.W. 1981. Allozyme variation, colony structure and genetic relatedness in the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 20: 177-183. [24.viii.1981.] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Wilson & Taylor 1964.pdf|Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1964. A fossil ant colony: new evidence of social antiquity. Psyche (Camb.) 71: 93-103 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Ants of Polynesia.pdf|Wilson, E.O. & Taylor, R.W. 1967. The ants of Polynesia. Pacific Insects Monograph 14: 1-109. [15.viii.1967.] PDF]]