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2 unusual facts about John Obadiah Westwood


John Westwood

John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893), English entomologist and archaeologist

Llangaffo

:This article incorporates public domain text from the "Topographical Dictionary of Wales" by Samuel Lewis (1833), the "National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland" (1868), and "Lapidarium walliae: the early inscribed and sculptured stones of Wales" by John Obadiah Westwood (1879).


Formicium

The species Formicium mirabile, named by Theodore D. A. Cockerell in 1920, and Formicium brodiei, named by John O. Westwood in 1854, are both known from fore-wings found in middle Eocene of Bournemouth, Dorset, England.


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