Bruch, Carlos (1869-1943)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Bruch and Dr. Angel Gallardo published scholarly works on the Argentine fauna in the 1910's to early 1930's, relying primarily on the able European myrmecologists for identifications. No better photographs of ants and their nests exist than those published by Bruch. Of German origin, he had a background as a professional photographer before becoming a professor at the University of La Plata. He vacationed in the Cordoba Hills where he learned much about the rich fauna there and also had correspondents in other parts of the country who sent him specimens.Both Gallardo and Bruch published their last work in the early 1930's.

ANT TAXONOMY
Santschi dedicated a number of ants to Carlos Bruch. Several were attines and he later placed them in other attine genera so that confusion is sometimes possible.

TAXONOMIIC PUBLICATIONS

 * Bruch, C. 1914. Catálogo sistemático de los formícidos argentinos. Rev. Mus. La Plata 19: 211-234


 * Bruch, C. 1915. Suplemento al catálogo de los formícidos argentinos. I. (Addenda et corrigenda). Rev. Mus. La Plata 19: 527-537


 * Bruch, C. 1916. Contribución al estudio de las hormigas de la provincia de San Luis. Rev. Mus. La Plata 23: 291-357


 * Bruch, C. 1917a. La forma sexuada femenina de Cryptocerus ridiculus Santschi. Physis (B. Aires) 3: 269-270


 * Bruch, C. 1917b. Costumbres y nidos de hormigas. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 83: 302-316


 * Bruch, C. 1917d. Hormigas de Catamarca. Physis (B. Aires) 3: 430-433


 * Bruch, C. 1919. Descripción de una curiosa ponerina de Córdoba Discothyrea neotropica n. sp. Physis (B. Aires) 4: 400-402


 * Bruch, C. 1921. Estudios mirmecológicos. Rev. Mus. La Plata 26: 175-211


 * Bruch, C. 1923. Estudios mirmecológicos con la descripción de nuevas especies de dípteros (Phoridae) por los Rr. Pp. H. Schmitz y Th. Borgmeier y de una araña (Gonyleptidae) por el Doctor Mello-Leita~o. Rev. Mus. La Plata 27: 172-220


 * Bruch, C. 1924a. Descripción de la reina Eciton (Acamatus) Hetschkoi Mayr. Physis (B. Aires) 7: 232-235


 * Bruch, C. 1924b. Una nueva ponerina Acanthostichus Ramosmexiae n. spec. Physis (B. Aires) 7: 260-261


 * Bruch, C. 1925b. Macho, larva y ninfa de Acanthostichus ramosmexiae Bruch. Physis (B. Aires) 8: 110-114


 * Bruch, C. 1925c. Rectificación. Physis (B. Aires) 8: 125


 * Bruch, C. 1928. Estudios mirmecológicos. An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. B. Aires 34: 341-360


 * Bruch, C. 1931. Notas biológicas y sistemáticas acerca de Bruchomyrma acutidens Santschi. Rev. Mus. La Plata 33: 31-55


 * Bruch, C. 1932. Descripción de un género y especie nueva de una hormiga parásita (Formicidae). Rev. Mus. La Plata 33: 271-275


 * Bruch, C. 1934a. La hembra dictadiforme de Acanthostichus laticornis For. v. obscuridens Sants. (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 6: 3-8


 * Bruch, C. 1934b. Las formas femeninas de Eciton. Descripción y redescripción de algunas especies de la Argentina. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 118: 113-135


 * Bruch, C. 1934d. Breves observaciones sobre costumbres de Eciton (Holopone) dulcius For. var. jujuyensis For. y decripción del macho (Hym. Formic.). Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 6: 261-265

REFERENCE

 * Herman, L.H. 2001. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265:49-50, portrait.


 * Lizer y Trelles, C. A. 1937. La obra entomologica de Don Carlos Bruch.Rev. Soc. ent. Argentina, Buenos Aires Volume: 9 Pages: pp. 13-21 Published: 1937


 * Portrait, obituary and bibliography by Carlos A. Lizer y Trelles (1943), Rev. Soc. Ent. Argentina, XII, pp 71-85.


 * Rev. Mus. La Plata (ns) 1943 for a good portrait.


 * BRUCH, Carlos (1873-1943). Lizer, C., B., Physis (Arg.) 7:213-227, 1924; B. only, Rev. Soc. Ent. Arg. 9:13-21, 1937; Lizer y Trelles, C. A., et al., B., P., Rev). Soc. Ent. Arg. 12:48-56, 71-91, 1943; Lizer y Trelles, C. A., et al., B., P., An. Soc. Cient. Arg. 137:169-183, 1943; Birab6n, M., B., P., Rev. La Plata Univ. Nat. Mus. Secc. Ofic. pp. 107-132, 1943 (1944); Schedl, K. E., Zentralbl. Gesamtgeb. Ent. 1:63, 1946; "C. L. T.," Physis (Arg.): 11:524-525, 1935; A., Physis (Arg) 10:436-438, 1931; Lizer y Trelles, C. A., Curso de Entomolo- gia 1:41-42, 1947.