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William Morton Wheeler ( March 19, 1865 - 1937) was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard Professor.

Wheeler was trained as an insect embryologist, having studied under Baur , Dohrn and Whitman, but became the leading authority on behaviour of social insects, with particular distinction being achieved in the field of ants . He took particular interest in the evolution of social behaviour in ants. He was instrumental in the development of ethology and first popularized the term in a 1902 paper in Science.

He was a taxonomist of the highest order, and was responsible for the descriptions of innumerable speciesThis article discusses biological species. Also see combinatorial species for the mathematical meaning of the term. Species is also a movie by Roger Donaldson. In English "species" is both singular and plural. The word " specie" is unrelated and is used t.

A close contact of the BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly myrmecologist and coleopteristColeopterist is the term for one who collects or studies beetles (Coleoptera). Notable Coleopterists include: Charles Darwin Horace Donisthorpe. Horace DonisthorpeDonisthorpe in front of the "Watch oak" in Great Windsor park surrounded by a group of Crown Estate Officers''September 15th, 1928 Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe F. March 17, 1870 April 22, 1951) was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist,, it was to Wheeler that Donisthorpe dedicated his first major book on ants in 1915Events January 12 The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of Congress. January 12 United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote. January 13 An earthquake (6. 8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Ital. Donisthorpe and Wheeler also frequently exchanged specimens, leading the latter to first develop the idea that the FormicinaeFormicinae : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Formicidae Formicinae Tribes, Genera and Species Species: Formica rufa Genus: Camponotus World-wide) Formica, Lasius Holartic) Gigantiops Neotropical) Polyrhachis Asian, African tropics) Melopho subfamily had its origins in North America.