 Barry Bolton

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 three encyclopaedic global works, including the "Identification Guide to Ant Genera" (1994), a full catalogue of ant taxa (1995, updated in 2007), and a synopsis and classification (2003).