Names for this agent
- Dr. Edward Osborne Wilson
- Edward Osborne Wilson (preferred)
- Wilson, E. O. (author)
- Ed Wilson (aka)
- E. O. Wilson (second author)
- E.O. Wilson (aka)
- Edward O. Wilson (aka)
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Media type: image; Edward Osborne Wilson; Description: Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, and writer specializing in myrmecology, the study of ants.;
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- None to other agents
- Thomas D. Seeley student of Edward Osborne Wilson
- James K. Wetterer student of Edward Osborne Wilson
- Ent (2260 records) in years 1931-2012
- Mala (62 records) in years 1953-1955
- IZ (45 records) in years 1953-2011
- Herp (33 records) in years 1953-1955
- Ich (1 record) in year 1966
Range of years collected is greater than 80 (1931-2012)
Collecting Event Map
- Amphibia: Hylidae (2 records) in year 1955
- Amphibia: Microhylidae (15 records) in year 1955
- Arachnida: Anapidae (2 records) in year 1955
- Arachnida: Araneidae (3 records) in year 1955
- Arachnida: Arkyidae (1 record) in year 1955
- Arachnida: Hemiscorpionidae (2 records) in years 1954-1955
- Arachnida: Holothyridae (1 record) in year 1955
- Arachnida: Phrurolithidae (1 record) in year 1957
- Arachnida: Psechridae (1 record) in year 1955
- Arachnida: Ricinoididae (1 record) in year 1985
- Arachnida: Salticidae (5 records) in year 1955
- Arachnida: Segestriidae (2 records) in year 1966
- Arachnida: Sparassidae (1 record) in year 1955
- Arachnida: Tetragnathidae (1 record) in year 1955
- Arachnida: Theridiidae (1 record) none known to year
- Arachnida: Vaejovidae (1 record) in year 1953
- Arachnida: Zalmoxidae (3 records) in years 1954-2011
- Arachnida: Zodariidae (2 records) in years 1954-1955
- Arachnida: [no family] (1 record) in year 1985
- Chilopoda: Chilenophilidae (1 record) in year 1954
- Chilopoda: Geophilidae (4 records) in year 1954
- Chilopoda: Mecistocephalidae (2 records) in year 1954
- Chilopoda: Scolopendridae (2 records) in years 1954-1955
- Diplopoda: Polyxenidae (1 record) in year 1966
- Gastropoda: Ariophantidae (3 records) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Assimineidae (1 record) in year 1954
- Gastropoda: Bulimulidae (3 records) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Camaenidae (12 records) in years 1954-1955
- Gastropoda: Charopidae (11 records) in years 1954-1955
- Gastropoda: Chronidae (1 record) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae (4 records) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Ellobiidae (1 record) in year 1954
- Gastropoda: Euconulidae (3 records) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Helicarionidae (6 records) in years 1953-1955
- Gastropoda: Helicinidae (3 records) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Pupinidae (1 record) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Rhytididae (2 records) in years 1954-1955
- Gastropoda: Subulinidae (1 record) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Trochomorphidae (1 record) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: [no family] (9 records) in year 1955
- Hirudinea: [no family] (1 record) in year 1955
- Insecta: Bethylidae (2 records) in year 1953
- Insecta: Blaberidae (1 record) in year 1955
- Insecta: Carabidae (40 records) in years 1950-1955
- Insecta: Chrysididae (1 record) none known to year
- Insecta: Colletidae (5 records) in year 1955
- Insecta: Formicidae (2205 records) in years 1931-2012
- Insecta: Ichneumonidae (1 record) in year 1952
- Insecta: Megachilidae (2 records) in year 1955
- Insecta: Pompilidae (2 records) in year 1955
- Insecta: Scarabaeidae (1 record) in year 1967
- Malacostraca: Ligiidae (1 record) in year 1967
- Malacostraca: [no family] (3 records) in years 1954-1955
- Osteichthyes: Belonidae (1 record) in year 1966
- Reptilia: Colubridae (1 record) in year 1955
- Reptilia: Gekkonidae (4 records) in year 1955
- Reptilia: Iguanidae (3 records) in year 1953
- Reptilia: Scincidae (8 records) in year 1955
- : Peripatopsidae (1 record) none known to year
- : [no family] (55 records) none known to year
- Not a preparator of any material in MCZbase
- 3791 identifications for 3775 Entomology cataloged items
- None
- Wilson, E. O. 1964. The ants of the Florida Keys. Breviora 210:1–14.
- Wilson, E. O. and W. L. Brown, Jr. 1955. Revisionary notes on the sanguinea and neogagates groups of the ant genus Formica. Psyche 62:108–129.
- Wilson, E. O. 1959. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. VI. The tribe Cerapachyini. Pacific Insects 1:39–57. 4 citations
- Wilson, E. O. and R. W. Taylor. 1967. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1–109. 55 citations
- Wilson, E. O. 1957. The discovery of Cerapachyine ants on New Caledonia, with the description of new species of Phyracaces and Sphinctomyrmex. Breviora 74:1–9. 22 citations
- Wilson, E. O. 1958. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. III. Rhytidoponera in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119(4):301–371. 3 citations
- Wilson, E. O. 1955. A monographic revision of the ant genus Lasius. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113(1):1–205. 123 citations
- Hölldobler, B. and E. O. Wilson. 1992. Pheidole nasutoides, a new species of Costa Rican ant that apparently mimics termites. Psyche 99:15–22. 10 citations
- Wetterer, J. K., D. Lubertazzi, J. D. Rana, and E. O. Wilson. 2016. Ants of Barbados (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Breviora 548:1–34.
- Wetterer, J. K., D. Lubertazzi, and E. O. Wilson. 2019. Ants of Grenada (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162(05):309–346. doi: 10.3099/0027-4100-162.5.263.
- Wilson, E. O. 1958. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. I. The tribe Leptogenyini. II. The tribes Amblyoponini and Platythyreini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118(3):99–153. 10 citations
- Wilson, E. O. 1957. The tenuis and selenophora groups of the ant genus Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 116(6):353–386. 17 citations
- Wilson, E. O. and W. L. Brown, Jr. 1985. Behavior of the cryptobiotic predaceous ant Eurhopalothrix heliscata, n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Basicerotini). Insectes Sociaux 31:408–428. 1 citation
- Wilson, E. O. 1985. Ants from the Cretaceous and Eocene amber of North America. Psyche 92:205–216. 2 citations
- Simberloff, D. and E. O. Wilson. 1969. Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: Defaunation and Monitoring Techniques. Ecology 50(2):267–278. doi: 10.2307/1934855. 5 citations
- Wilson, E. O. 1984. Tropical social parasites in the ant genus Pheidole, with an analysis of the anatomical parasitic syndrome (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 31:316–334. 1 citation
- Wilson, E. O. 1962. Behavior of Daceton armigerum (Latreille), with a classification of self-grooming movements in ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127(7):404–421.
- Brown, W. L., Jr. and E. O. Wilson. 1957. Dacetinops, a new ant genus from New Guinea. Breviora 77:1–7. 2 citations
- Brown, W. L. and E. O. Wilson. 1957. A new parasitic ant of the genus Monomorium from Alabama, with a consideration of the status of genus Epixenus Emery. Entomological News 68:239–246. doi:10.5281/zenodo.27021. 1 citation
- Wilson, E. O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World: a dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 818 pp. 2199 citations
- Wilson, E. O. and W. L. Brown, Jr. 1956. New parasitic ants of the genus Kyidris, with notes on ecology and behavior. Insectes Sociaux 3:439–454. 5 citations
- Wilson, E. O. and W. L. Brown, Jr. 1967. Taxonomic names, in The first Mesozoic ants, with the description of a new subfamily. Psyche 74:1–19. 1 citation
- Wilson, E. O. 1989. Chimaeridris, a new genus of hook-mandibled myrmicine ants from tropical Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 36:62–69. 1 citation
- Wilson, E. O. 1964. The true army ants of the Indo-Australian area (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae). Pacific Insects Monograph 6(3):427–483. 18 citations
- Wilson, E. O. 1985. Ants of the Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) 3. The subfamily Dolichoderinae. Psyche 92(1):17–37. 16 citations
- Wilson, E. O. 1977. The first workerless parasite in the ant genus Formica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche 83:277–281. 1 citation
- Wilson, E. O., T. Eisner, G. C. Wheeler, and J. Wheeler. 1956. Aneuretus simoni Emery, a major link in ant evolution. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 115(3):79–99.
- Wilson, E. O. 1985. Ants of the Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) 1. Two new myrmicine genera and an aberrant Pheidole. Psyche 92(1):1–9. 8 citations
- Wilson, E. O. 1959. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. V. The tribe Odontomachini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120(5):481–510. 4 citations