Barry Bolton is an English myrmecologist, an expert on the classification, systematics, and taxonomy of ants, who long worked at the Natural History Museum, London. He is known especially for monographs on African and Asian ants, and for encyclopaedic global works, including the Identification Guide to Ant Genera (1994), A New General Catalogue of Ants of the World (1995,[1] updated in 2007), Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae (2003), and Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World: 1758-2005 (2007). Now retired, Bolton is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and Myrmecologist, Biodiversity Division, Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London.
Recognition
At least 21 species of ants are named in Bolton's honour[citation needed]:
Bolton, Barry (2000). The Ant Tribe Dacetini. Volume 65 of the series Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. Gainesville, FL: American Entomological Institute. ISBN9781887988094.