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


 * [[Media:Aktac et al.pdf|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]]


 * [[Media:Karaman et al 2015.pdf|Karaman, C.; Kiran, K.; Aksoy, V.; Camlitepe, Y. 2015. First record of the South European rare parasitic ant species Camponotus universitatis Forel (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Asia. Journal of the Entomological Research Society 17(1):45-49.]]


 * Kiran, K. & AKTAÇ, N. 2007: The social parasitic ant Plagiolepis xene STÄRCKE, 1936 new to Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). – Myrmecological News 10: 110. pdf [144KB]


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


 * [[Media:Kiran et al 2013.pdf|Kiran, K., Alipanah, H. & Paknia, O. 2013. A new species of the ant genus Aphaenogaster Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Asian Myrmecology 5, 45-51.]]


 * [[Media:Kiran & Karaman 2012.pdf| Kiran, K.; Karaman, C. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548:1-38. [2012-11-14.]]
 * [[Media:Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2014. First records of Temnothorax flavicornis (Emery, 1870) in Bulgaria and Turkey.pdf|Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Kiran, K. & Karaman, C. 2014. First records of Temnothorax flavicornis (Emery, 1870) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Bulgaria and Turkey. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 66(4), 571-574.]]