Alvaro Wille Trejos, Costa Rican entomologist (San Jose 17 May 1928 – San Jose 11 June 2006)

From German ancestry 

A technique for collecting stingless bees under jungle conditions. Insectes Sociaux 9(3):291-3, 1962

With C.D. Michener, E.A. Cross, H.V. Daly & C.W. Rettenmeyer. Additional techniques for studying the behaviour of wild bees. Insectes Sociaux 2:237-46, 1955

Coauthored a monumental work on the nest architecture of stingless bees

With C.D. Michener. The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev.Biol. Trop. 21(Suppl1):1-278, 1973

DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA

Species

Fossil

Proplebeia silacea 1959

Trigonia (Liotrigonia) dominicana 1964 with Chandler

Living

Plebeia tica 1969

Tetragonisca costaricensis 1962

Trigonia (Plebeia) intermedia 1960

Trigonisca discolor 1965

HONORS

Meliwillea Camargo, Lobo & Roubik 1997 (Hymenoptera)

LINKS

www.ots.ac.cr/tropiweb/attachments/volumes/vol54-4/00-4-Obituario%20A.%20Wille.pdf