Biographical Details

Roy R. Snelling. American entomologist (1934-2008).

Studied Hymenoptera, mainly ants, wasps, and bees.

Authored taxa

  • 2 taxon names authored by Roy R. Snelling (List may be incomplete)

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

  • Creighton & Snelling. 1967. The rediscovery of Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus) yogi Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche, 73: 187–195.
  • Snelling in De Andrade & Baroni Urbani. 1999. Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present. Stuttgarter Beitraege zur Naturkunde, (B)271: 1–889.
  • Francoeur & Snelling. 1979. Notes for a revision of the ant genus Formica. 2. Reidentifications for some speciemens from the T. W. Cook collection and new distribution data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 309: 1–7.
  • Snelling. 1981. Systematics of social Hymenoptera. Pages 369-453 in Hermann. Social insects. Vol. 2. Academic Press, New York. 491 pp.
  • Hunt & Snelling. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science, 10: 20–23.
  • Snelling in Hunt & Snelling. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science, 10: 20–23.
  • Longino & Snelling. 2002. A taxonomic revision of the Procryptocerus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Central America. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 495: 1–30.
  • Snelling & Longino. 1992. Revisionary notes on the fungus-growing ants of the genus Cyphomyrmex, rimosus-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini). (30) Pages 479-494 in Quintero & Aiello. Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: selected studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 692 pp.
  • Snelling. 1954. Wasps of the genus Polistes in California and Arizona (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 27: 151–155.
  • Snelling. 1955. Notes on some Polistes in the American Museum of Natural History, with descriptions of new North American subspecies (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). American Museum Novitates, 1701: 1–9.
  • Snelling. 1963. The United States species of fire ants of the genus Solenopsis, subgenus Solenopsis Westwood, with synonymy of Solenopsis aurea Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Occasional Papers, Bureau of Entomology, California Department of Agriculture, 3: 1–15.
  • Snelling. 1965. Studies on California ants. 1. Leptothorax hirticornis Emery, a new host and descriptions of the female and ergatoid male (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin Southern California Academy of Sciences, 64: 16–21.
  • Snelling. 1965. Studies on California ants. 2. Myrmecina californica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin Southern California Academy of Sciences, 64: 101–105.
  • Snelling. 1966. Studies on North American bees of the genus Hylaeus, 1. Distribution of the western species of the subgenus Prosopis with descriptions of new forms. Contributions in Science, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, 98: 1–18.
  • Snelling. 1966. Studies on North American bees of the genus Hylaeus, 2. Description of a new subgenus and species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 79: 139–144.
  • Snelling. 1966. Studies on North American bees of the genus Hylaeus, 3. The Nearctic subgenera. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Science, 65: 164–175.
  • Snelling. 1966. The female of Eucryptocerus placidus (F. Smith) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin Southern California Academy of Sciences, 65: 37–40.
  • Snelling. 1967. Studies on California ants. 3. The taxonomic status of Proceratium californicum Cook (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 124: 1–10.
  • Snelling. 1968. Studies on North American Bees of the genus Hylaeus, 4. The subgenera Cephahylaeus, Metziella and Hylaeana. Contributions in Science, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History 144: 1–6.
  • Snelling. 1968. Studies on California ants. 4. Two species of Camponotus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 70: 350–359.
  • Snelling. 1968. A new species of Eurhopalothrix from El Salvador (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 154: 1–4.
  • Snelling. 1968. Studies on California ants. 4. Two species of Camponotus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 70: 350–358.
  • Snelling. 1968. Taxonomic notes on some Mexican cephalotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 132: 1–10.
  • Snelling. 1969. The repository of the T. W. Cook ant types (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 68: 57–58.
  • Snelling. 1969. Notes on the systematics and dulosis of some western species of Formica, subgenus Raptiformica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 71: 194–197.
  • Snelling. 1969. Taxonomic notes on the Myrmecocystus melliger complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 170: 1–9.
  • Snelling. 1970. Studies on California ants, 5. Revisionary notes on some species of Camponotus, subgenus Tanaemyrmex (Hymenoptera; Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 72: 390–397.
  • Snelling. 1971. A new species of Simopelta from Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin Southern California Academy of Sciences, 70: 16–17.
  • Snelling. 1971. Studies on California ants. 6. three new species of Myrmecocystus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 214: 1–16.
  • Snelling. 1973. Studies on California ants. 7. The genus Stenamma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 245: 1–38.
  • Snelling. 1973. The ant genus Conomyrma in the United States (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 238: 1–6.
  • Snelling. 1973. Two ant genera new to the United States (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 236: 1–8.
  • Snelling. 1974. Changes in the status of some North American polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 76: 476–479.
  • Snelling. 1974. Notes on the distribution and taxonomy of some North American Centris (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 259: 1–41.
  • Snelling. 1974. Studies on California ants. 8. A new species of Cardiocondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 82: 76–81.
  • Snelling. 1975. A new North American genus of Eumenidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 77: 56–58.
  • Snelling. 1975. Descriptions of new Chilean ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 274: 1–19.
  • Snelling. 1976. A revision of the honey ants, genus Myrmecocystus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Bulletin, 24: 1–163.
  • Snelling. 1979. Aphomomyrmex and a related new genus of arboreal African ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 316: 3–8.
  • Snelling. 1979. Three new species of the palaeotropical arboreal ant genus Cataulacus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 315: 3–8.
  • Snelling. 1982. The taxonomy of some neotropical Hylaeus and descriptions of new taxa. Bulletin Southern California Academy of Sciences, 81: 1–25.
  • Snelling. 1982. A revision of the honey ants, genus Myrmecocystus, first supplement (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin Southern California Academy of Sciences, 81: 69–86.
  • Snelling. 1982. The taxonomy and distribution of some North American Pogonomyrmex and descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin Southern California Academy of Sciences, 80: 97–112.
  • Snelling. 1983. Taxonomic and nomenclaturial studies on American polistine wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 59: 267–280.
  • Snelling. 1983. The North American species of the bee genus Lithurge (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 343: 1–11.
  • Snelling. 1984. Studies on the taxonomy and distribution of American centridine bees (Hymenotpera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 347: 1–69.
  • Snelling. 1985. The systematics of the hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) of the Ethiopian zoologeographical region: The genera and subgenera with revisions of the smaller groups. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 361: 1–33.
  • Snelling. 1986. Contributions toward a revision of the new world nomadine bees. A partitioning of the genus Nomada (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 376: 1–32.
  • Snelling. 1986. Contributions toward a revision of the New World nomadine bees. A partitioning of the genus Nomada (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 376: 1–32.
  • Snelling. 1986. New synonymy in Caribbean ants of the genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 88: 154–156.
  • Snelling. 1987. Contributions toward a revision of the New World nomadine bees. 2. The genus Melanomada (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 384: 1–12.
  • Snelling. 1990. A review of the native North American bees of the genus Chalicodoma (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 421: 1–39.
  • Snelling. 1992. A newly adventive ant of the genus Pheidole in southern California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin Southern California Academy of Sciences, 91: 121–125.
  • Snelling. 1992. Two unusual new myrmicine ants from Cameroon (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche, 99: 95–101.
  • Snelling. 1994. Diadasia, subgenus Dissiapis, in North America (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 448: 1–8.
  • Snelling. 1995. Systematics of Nearctic ants of the genus Dorymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 454: 1–14.

1996

  • Snelling, R.R. 1996. Systematic notes on some Bethylidae from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 17: 194–208. Reference page. 
  • Snelling. 2000. A review of the Camponotus montivagus complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology, 36(3): 599–611.
  • Snelling. 2001. Two new species of thief ants (Solenopsis) from Puerto Rico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology, 3B: 511–525.
  • Snelling. 2006. Taxonomy of the Camponotus festinatus complex in the United States of America (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten, 8: 83–97.
  • Snelling & Brooks. 1985. A review of the genera of cleptoparasitic bees of the tribe Ericrocini (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 369: 1–34.
  • Snelling & Buren. 1985. Description of a new species of slave-making ant in the Formica sanguinea group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Great Lakes Entomologist, 18: 69–78.
  • Snelling & Cover. 1992. Description of a new Proceratium from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche, 99: 49–53.
  • Snelling & Danforth. 1992. A review of Perdita, subgenus Macrotera (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 436: 1–12.
  • Snelling & Hunt. 1976. The ants of Chile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 9: 63–129.
  • Snelling, G.C. & Snelling, R.R. 2007. New synonymy, new species, new keys to Neivamyrmex army ants of the United States. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80: 459–550. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
  • Snelling & Stage. 1995. Systematics and biology of the bee genus Xeralictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae, Rophitinae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 451: 1–17.
  • Snelling & Torres. 1998. Camponotus ustus Forel and two similar new species from Puerto Rico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 469: 1–10.
  • Snelling & Zavortink. 1984. A revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Ericrocis (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Wasmann Journal of Biology, 42(1-2): 1–26.
  • Snelling. 2007. A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris. Pages 551-579 in Snelling, Fisher & Ward. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E.O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80, . pp.
  • Snelling. 2007. Preface. Pages 1–2 in Snelling, Fisher & Ward. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E.O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80, . pp.
  • Snelling, Fisher & Ward. 2007. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E.O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80, . pp.
  • Torres, Snelling & Jones. 2000. Distribution, ecology and behavior of Anochetus kempfi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and description of the sexual forms. Sociobiology, 36(3): 505–516.
  • Snelling. 1988. Taxonomic notes on Nearctic species of Camponotus, subgenus Myrmentoma. Pages 55–78 in Trager. Advances in myrmecology. E. J. Brill, New York. 551 pp.
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