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)