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2 unusual facts about Edward Meyrick


Edward Meyrick

He was an expert on Microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern Microlepidoptera systematics.

William D. Kearfott

Because Kearfott's names were published in widely distributed scientific journals and his species were adequately described and diagnosed, his names are valid, but the naming practice of Kearfott was not deemed appropriate by other entomologists, such as Edward Meyrick who even responded to Kearfott's work with a paper called "On some impossible scientific names in Micro-Lepidoptera," published in 1912.



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