Barry Bolton is an English myrmecologist, the world's leading expert on classification, systematics and taxonomy of ants, long time working in the British museum of the natural histories (London), known on the works on the African ants and three largest monographies in which has given the full review of all ants in volume of world fauna, including Identification guide, Catalogue of species and New reclassification (1994, 1995, 2003). Subfamilies Aenictinae Aenictogitoninae Aneuretinae Apomyrminae Cerapachyinae Dolichoderinae Dorylinae Ecitoninae Formicinae Leptanillinae Leptanilloidinae Myrmeciinae Myrmicinae Nothomyrmeciinae Ponerinae Pseudomyrmecinae Ants are one of the most successful groups of insects in the animal kingdom. ...
Bolton, B. (1995). A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. pp.1-504. Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World
Subfamilies Aenictinae Aenictogitoninae Aneuretinae Apomyrminae Cerapachyinae Dolichoderinae Dorylinae Ecitoninae Formicinae Leptanillinae Leptanilloidinae Myrmeciinae Myrmicinae Nothomyrmeciinae Ponerinae Pseudomyrmecinae Ants are one of the most successful groups of insects in the animal kingdom. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with List of notable myrmecologists. ...
Bolton's aim in producing this book was to provide a means of identifying all extant ant genera, and to produce a catalog of existing and fossil genera, as well as the tribes and subfamilies of Formicidae.
Bolton has emerged as the leading ant taxonomist, and his work is regarded by his peers to be of the highest quality.
BarryBolton, now retired, is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and Myrmecologist, Biodiversity Division, Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London.
Bolton was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised as a Lutheran.
Bolton was instrumental in derailing a 2001 bio-weapons conference in Geneva convened to endorse a UN proposal to enforce the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
Bolton is alleged by Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman to have played a role in encouraging the inclusion of statement that British Intelligence had determined Iraq attempted to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address[16](pdf).
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