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Carl W. Rettenmeyer (1931-2009)
Мирмекологи России Мирмекологи мира
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Профессор Карл В. Реттенмейер (10.02.1931 - 9.04.2009) был специалистом по кочевым муравьям Америки, акарологом и знатоком многочисленных мирмекофилов, живущих вместе с муравьями.
Родился 10 февраля 1931 года (Meriden, CT, родители: Frederick и Gertrude Rettenmeyer). Стал известен и по знаменитому документальному фильму на DVD “Astonishing Army Ants” (Удивительные Бродячие Муравьи). Также он был основателем и директором Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, который он открыл в городе Storrs в 1985 году.
Он начал его иследования кочевых муравьев в 1952 году, когда он был ещё студентом в Swarthmore College. Тогда он получил большую и счастливую возможность быть полевым помощником у крупнейшего специалиста по кочевникам у доктора Dr. Theodore C. Schneirla, Department of Animal Behavior, American Museum of Natural History (New York). Они вместе проработали в экспедиции в Панаме (Barro Colorado Island, Panama) в 1952 году. Эти исследования заинтересовали популярный журнал "Life Magazine", который послал его в 1955 в те же места для подготовки специальной статьи. За это время он изучил более 1600 колоний муравьев-кочевников, включая Eciton, обнаружив более 130 новых видов и 3 новых для науки семейства паразитических клещей, живущих с муравьями. После этого был получен крупный грант от National Science Foundation для работы в Панаме.
С 1954 его женой была Marian E. Rettenmeyer, верная спутница и помошница в его полевых исследованиях, начиная с подготовки диссертации в 1956 году. Вместе они сделали немало открытий и множество великолепных фотографий животного мира и в первую очередь уникальные снимки кочевых муравьев. Свою диссертацию и степень Ph.D он получил в University of Kansas в 1962 году. В университете University of Connecticut он проработал с 1971 до своей отставки в 1996 году. Читал лекции по курсам Biology, Social Insects, Photography for Biologists. Был членом 17 профессиональных Обществ.
Скончался от рака 9 апреля 2009 года (Storrs, Connecticut). Ему было 78 лет.
В ЧЕСТЬ Реттенмейера БЫЛИ НАЗВАНЫ десятки новых для науки видов и родов животных, найденных у муравьв-кочевников. Среди таких мирмекофилов, например новые виды жуков Ecitophya rettenmeyeri, Paramimeciton rettenmeyeri, Vatesus rettenmeyeri, Pheigetoxenus rettenmeyeri (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae),
мирмекоморфные пауки Myrmecotypus rettenmeyeri (Araneae, Clubionidae) и Mazax rettenmeyeri (Araneida, Corinnidae), многоножки рода Rettenmeyeria (Diplopoda, Stylodesmidae), щетинохвостки Grassiella rettenmeyeri (Thysanura),
клещи Reductodispus rettenmeyerorum (Acari, Microdispidae) и Pinoglyphus rettenmeyeri (Acari, Pinoglyphidae).
Много открытий было сделано в семействе Scutacaridae (Acari, Tarsonemida), например Imparipes rettenmeyeri, Rettenmeyerella petropolitana petropolitana, Rettenmeyerella petropolitana solenifera, в семействе Anoetidae, например Histosoma rettenmeyerorum, Pteranoetus rettenmeyeri (Mahunka, 1977) и в семействе Ascidae, например Rettenmeyerius agnesae, Rettenmeyerius carli, Rettenmeyerius marianae, Rettenmeyerius plaumanni, Rettenmeyerius schneirli (Elzinga, 1966, 1975, 1998).
Автор биографии - В.А.Красильников
Добавлю ещё от себя, что незадолго до смерти под его опекой начал создаваться сайт www.armyantbiology.com (к сожалению, на сегодня он ещё дорабатывается), специально посвященный кочевым муравьям, их биологии и разнообразию, где размещены некоторые из его фотографий.
"Синдром муравьев-кочевников"
Dr. Carl W. Rettenmeyer
Professor Emeritus
Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3023 USA
Founding Director Emeritus
Ct State Museum of Natural History
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3023 USA
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СПИСОК ПУБЛИКАЦИЙ Carl W. Rettenmeyer
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Akre, R. D. and C. W. Rettenmeyer (1966). "Behavior of Staphylinidae associated with army ants (Formicidae: Ecitonini)." J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 39: 745-782.
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Akre, R. D. and C. W. Rettenmeyer (1968). "Trail-following by guests of army ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ecitonini)." J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 41: 165-174.
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Baldridge, R. S., C. W. Rettenmeyer, et al. (1980). "Seasonal, nocturnal and diurnal flight periodicities of Nearctic army ant males (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 53: 189-204.
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Chadab, R. and C. W. Rettenmeyer (1975). "Mass recruitment by army ants." Science 188: 1124-1125.
A single army ant (Ecitoninae) can attract and direct scores of workers to prey by means of a chemical trail and momentary contact between the recruiter and workers on a raid column. Recruited workers, in turn, attract more ants, resulting in a continuous stream of recruits. While the recruitment mechanism is basically similar, the speed and the number of ants recruited are greater for army ants than for other ants.
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Elzinga, R. J. and C. W. Rettenmeyer (1966). "A neotype and new species of Planodiscus (Acarina: Uropodina) found on doryline ants." Acarologia 8: 191-199.
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Elzinga, R. J. and C. W. Rettenmeyer (1970). "Five new species of Planodiscus (Acarina: Uropodina) found on doryline ants." Acarologia 12: 59-70.
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Elzinga, R. J. and C. W. Rettenmeyer (1975). "Seven new species of Circocylliba (Acarina: Uropodina) found on army ants." Acarologia 16: 595-611.
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Fowler, H. G., P. Vanderschaff, et Rettenmeyer, C.W. (1985). "Collection of entire colonies of carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) (Formicidae: Hymenoptera) from logs." J. Econ. Entomol. 78: 1176-1178.
*[Infested logs are flooded to force evacuation of the ant colony.]
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Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1961). Behavior, abundance and host specificity of mites found on Neotropical army ants (Acarina; Formicidae: Dorylinae), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Entomology (Vienna, 1960) 1: 610-612, Table 17.
*[Clearly marked as published in 1961. Table XVII is a plate of photographs.]
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1961). "Observations on the biology and taxonomy of flies found over swarm raids of army ants (Diptera: Tachinidae, Conopidae)." Univ. Kans. Sci. Bull. 42: 993-1066.
*[Biology & behavioral work done in Panama; other records from museum specimens. The flies are not parasites of the ants; but are parasites of Orthoptera (crickets) & cockroaches flushed from hidding by the raiding ants.]
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1962). Arthropods associated with Neotropical army ants with a review of the behavior of these ants (Arthropoda; Formicidae: Dorylinae), Ph.D. dissert., University of Kansas, 658 p. [Dissert. Abstr. 26: 1239]
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1962). "The behavior of millipeds found with Neotropical army ants." J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 35: 377-384.
*[Rettenmeyer worked in Panama; other records (some corrected) from literature. Millipedes are not found with Eciton & Neivamyrmex in Panama. C. falcatus & C. formicatus recorded from N. esenbecki from Panama. C. gracilis & C. rettenmeyeri recorded from L. praedator & N. esenbecki from Panama. C. biensifer & C. rettenmeyeri recorded from L. praedator bivouacs from Mexico. C. sodalis recorded from L. praedator from Costa Rica. R. parvipesi recorded from N. esenbecki from Panama. Y. dampfi recorded from L. praedator from Mexico. C. trinus recorded from E. mexicanum panamense raiding column (prob. booty) from Panama. P. fulgens recorded from E. burchelli refuse deposits from Panama.]
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1962). "Notes on host specificity and behavior of myrmecophilous macrochelid mites." J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 35: 358-360.
*[A. burchellestes was found with E. burchelli from British Guiana & Trinidad. M. rettenmeyeri with was found with E. dulcius crassinode from Panama. M. dibanos was found with was found with E. vagans from Panama. No macrochelids were found with E. burchelli, E. hamatum, or E. mexicanum from Panama.]
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1962). "Unusual host-seeking behavior by flies found over swarm raids of Neotropical army ants." Proc. Entomol. Soc. Am. N. Cent. Br. 16: 15.
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1963). "The behavior of Thysanura found with army ants." Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 56: 170-174.
*[Rettenmeyer worked in Panama. T. manni was collected only from 5 Eciton spp. from Panama, not other army ant genera. T. borgmeieri was collected only from N. esenbecki crassicorne from Panama, not L. praedator. G. rettenmeyeri was collected from E. burchelli, E. dulcius crassinode, E. mexicanum, E. vagans, N. gibbtaus, & N. esenbecki crassicorne from Panama. Grassiella sp., prob. G. rettenmeyeri was collected from L. praedator from Mexico. T. manni & beetles were in observation nest with ants; most biology & behavior on T. manni.]
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1963). "Behavioral studies of army ants." Univ. Kans. Sci. Bull. 44: 281-465.
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Nagel, H. G. and C. W. Rettenmeyer (1973). "Nuptial flights, reproductive behavior and colony founding of the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 46: 82-101.
[Reports on the production of reproductives; the relation of nuptial flights to meteorological activity, especially moisture; resting spots of mating aggregations on grain elevators, house roofs, chimneys and apex of a hill; size of mating clusters, the number of males congregating around females being less than 20 per female and copulation behavior, including landing site selection on relatively bare areas and microhabitat selection; nest founding by queens; oviposition; size of first brood, the larvae being fed on eggs laid by the queen and 100% mortality of new colonies established in man-made nests. Observed that queens frequently carried eggs in their psammophores. Data derived from thesis by Nagel (1969).; from RJL and LER]
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1974). Description of the queen and male with some biological notes on the army ant, Eciton rapax. Connecticut Entomological Society 25th Anniversary Memoirs. R. L. Beard. New Haven. 322 p., Connecticut Entomological Society: 291-302.
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. and R. D. Akre (1968). "Ectosymbiosis between phorid flies and army ants." Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 61: 1317-26.
*[Crematogaster, Iridomyrmex, & Pheidole brood were used as army ant food & to rear phorids in the laboratory.]
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1983). Checklist of army ants (arrieras) (Formicidae: Ecitoninae). Costa Rican natural history. D. H. Janzen. Chicago. xi + 816 p., University of Chicago Press: 650.
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. (1983). Eciton burchelli and other army ants (hormigera arriera, army ants). Costa Rican natural history. D. H. Janzen. Chicago. xi, 816 p., University of Chicago Press: 716-718.
- Rettenmeyer, C. W., R. Chadab Crepet, et al. (1983). Comparative foraging by neotropical army ants. Social insects in the tropics. Proceedings of the First International Symposium. P. Jaisson. Paris. 252 p., Universite Paris-Nord. 2: 59-73.
*[Pachycondyla (= Neoponera)]
- Rettenmeyer, C. W., H. Topoff, et al. (1978). "Queen retinues of army ants." Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 71: 519-528.
- Rettenmeyer, C. W. and J. F. Watkins, II (1978). "Polygyny and monogyny in army ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 51: 581-591.
*[Neivamyrmex carolinensis regularly has 3-13 queens. All other ecitonines anre monogynous.]
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Spangler, H. G. and C. W. Rettenmeyer (1966). "The function of the ammochaetae or psammophores of harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex spp." J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 39: 739-745.
[Concludes that the function of the several rows of long hairs on the lower surfaces of the head of P. occidentalis, called ammochaetae, is to carry sand or soil while the workers are excavating nests. (See Nagel and Rettenmeyer, 1973).; from RJL and LER]
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Watkins, J. F., II and C. W. Rettenmeyer (1967). "Effects of army ant queens on longevity of their workers (Formicidae: Dorylinae)." Psyche 74: 228-233.
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