Gonzalo Halffter Salas, Spanish-born Mexican entomologist (Madrid 19 September 1932 -
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)
Enunciated the concept of distribution pattern
DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA GENERA
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
HONORS
Halffterina Descamps 1975 (Orthoptera)
Halffterius Zunino 1984 (Coleoptera)
Halffterobolus Martínez 1976 (Coleoptera)
Halffterinetis Morón & Nogueira 2007 (Coleoptera)