Gonzalo Halffter Salas, Spanish-born Mexican entomologist (Madrid 19 September 1932 – Xalapa 11 March 2022)

Regarded as world authority on behavior and analysis of subsocial structures of insects  and ecology, biology and ethology of dung beetles

Authored 358 works being 76 books and book chapters (3,200 citations in 2003)

Developed a theory of dispersal patterns (1970s)

With C. Deloya. Primer caso de nidificación de um geotrupino (Scarabaeoidea: Geotrupidae) em cuevas: un fenômeno excepcional. Acta Zool. Mex. 23(3), 2007

With M. Rös. A streategy for meassuring biodiversity. Acta Zool. Mex. 29(2):400-11, 2013

A strategy for measuring landscape biodiversity. Bio. Intern. (Spec. Issue) 36:3-17, 1998

Proposed the biosphere reserves

Les réserves de la biosphere: nouvelles alternative pour la conservation du germoplasme et pour les recherches écologiques. Etudes & Recherches 1:50-3, 1981

Proposed the archipelago reserve

La reserva archipiélago – un nuevo tipo de área protegida (2007)

DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA

Genera / Subgenera

Bajacanthon 2022 (subgenus)

Boreocanthon 1958

Eucanthidium 1986 with Martínez

Hansreia 1977 with Martínez

Melanocanthon 1958

Neocanthidium 1964 with Martínez & Pereira

Sylvicanthon 1977 with Martinez

Tesserodoniella 2006 with Vaz de Mello

Species

At least 60

HONORS

Halffterina Descamps 1975 (Orthoptera)

Halffterius Zunino 1984 (Coleoptera)

Halffterobolus Martínez 1976 (Coleoptera)

Halffterinetis Morón & Nogueira 2007 (Coleoptera)