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3 unusual facts about Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell


John Harvey Lovell

With Theodore D. A. Cockerell they identified 32 species in Maine and noted that some bees only visit one kind of flower such as the pickrel weed bee.

Pleurodonte guadeloupensis

Pleurodonte guadeloupensis dominicana Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1937 - This subspecies is endemic to the Caribbean island of Dominica.

Sydney Cockerell

The bee expert Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866–1948), who settled in the United States, was his brother, as was the book binder, Douglas Bennett Cockerell (1870–1945).


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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