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4 unusual facts about entomology


Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest

Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest (1816–1889) was a French zoologist and entomologist son of Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1734–1838).

Johann Caspar Füssli

Johann Kaspar Füssli (9 March 1743 in Zurich – 4 May 1786 in Winterthur), painter and entomologist

Parnassius Guccinii

The title is a reference to a butterfly subspecies discovered in 1992 by an Italian entomologist, which was named Parnassius mnemosyne guccinii after the singer-songwriter.

Skuse

Frederick A. Askew Skuse (ca 1863 - 10 June 1896) was a British-Australian entomologist


Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy

Fourcroy's 1785 publication, Entomologia Parisiensis, sive, Catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur ..., co-written with Étienne Louis Geoffroy, was a major contribution to systematic entomology.

Archiinocellia

The specimen was first studied and described by the prolific paleoentomologist Anton Handlirsch from a specimen collected by Canadian geologist and paleontologist Lawrence M. Lambe during fieldwork in central British Columbia.

Australian Journal of Entomology

The Austral Entomology (formerly Australian Journal of Entomology) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Australian Entomological Society.

Birka

In the late 19th century, Hjalmar Stolpe, an entomologist by education, arrived on Björkö to study fossilized insects found in amber on the island.

Boris Schwanwitsch

Among his other important contributions are a textbook in entomology with a large morphology section heavily based on Snodgrass and Weber (1949, still in use in Russian Universities), and a book on practical apiculture (1945).

Bötticher

Hans von Boetticher (1886–1958), German zoologist who worked on ornithology and entomology

Buggin' with Ruud

Buggin' with Ruud is a television show of 13 x 60min episodes that follow the adventures of Dutch-New Zealander Ruud Kleinpaste, an entomologist.

Charles Thomas Brues

He was appointed field agent of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 1904-05, curator of invertebrate zoology in the Milwaukee Public Museum 1905-09, and then became instructor in economic entomology at Harvard University.

Charles W. Woodworth

The Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America gives an annual award for achievement in Entomology in the Pacific region of the U.S. over the previous ten years called the C. W. Woodworth Award (list of winners).

Ciulfina

Based upon the identification distinction of Ciulfina species through male genital morphology, an entomologist at Macquarie University suggests there may be more than fifteen Ciulfina species.

David Allan Young

He then taught science at the Louisville Public School System and later studied entomology at the Cornell University and obtained a Master of Science in 1942.

Enrica Calabresi

In the academic years 1936-37 and 1937-38 she held the chair of Agricultural Entomology on the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Pisa.

Ernst Friedrich Germar

As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera.

Forensic entomologist

The first written record of forensic entomology being employed in legal matters dates back centuries to Song Ci (1186-1249) a Chinese forensic medical expert.

Of the total, most are also affiliated with colleges such as Texas A&M University and Michigan State University where entomology courses are taught and research conducted (Professional Status of Entomologists).

A more recent and widely publicized homicide case that employed the use of forensic entomology was the David Westerfield trial.

Franklinothrips

Franklin worked at the entomology department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1930s.

Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von Bärensprung

In the field of entomology, he was instrumental in the founding of the journal, Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, in which he published papers on Hemiptera.

Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata

On 1 February 2010 it was reported that an entomologist had identified the presence of Hadda beetles in the Auckland area of New Zealand.

Hiromichi Kono

His emphasis within entomology was on Coleoptera, his doctoral work (completed circa 1932) concerning a Japanese billbug (Okada, 1964).

Jacob Christian Schäffer

Jakob or Jacob Christian Schäffer or Schäffern (30 May 1718, Querfurt – 5 January 1790) was a German dean, professor, botanist, mycologist, entomologist, ornithologist and inventor.

Laurence H. Snyder

Snyder taught at four academic institutions, all state universities: North Carolina State College (1924-1930) as professor of biology, Ohio State University (1930-1947) as professor of genetics and later chairman of the Department of Zoology and Entomology, the University of Oklahoma (1947-1958) as Dean of the graduate college and professor of medicine, and the University of Hawaii (1958-1963) as President and later professor and professor emeritus.

Lawrence Bruner

He received an appointment as assistant on the United States Entomological Commission in 1880, and as field agent for the United States Department of Agriculture at the University of Nebraska in 1888, where he became instructor in entomology in 1890 and professor in 1895.

Lebia cruxminor

They were first photographed on 30 March 2002, by a Russian entomologist Oleg Berlov, in Irkutsk, Russia.

Marc Soula

It is in entomology he gives all his efforts and in a few years he becomes one of the world's leading experts in Rutelinae.

Mark W. Moffett

He has been compared to Jacques Cousteau and Jane Goodall, and National Geographic has called him “the Indiana Jones of Entomology”.

Molosser

Nineteenth-century army veterinarian and entomologist Jean Pierre Mégnin theorized there were four basic canine races based on his observation of their different skull structures: Lupoides (Spitz), Braccoides (scenthounds), Graioides (sighthounds), and Molossoides (mountain dogs, mastiff breeds and even Pugs).

Paul Wellings

In 1981 he moved to Australia as a research ecologist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), becoming Chief of the Entomology Division in 1995.

Pholcus phalangioides

This is the only spider species described by the Swiss entomologist Johann Kaspar Füssli who first recorded it for science in 1775.

Proceratium google

Proceratium google, also known as the Google ant, was discovered in Madagascar by Brian L. Fisher, Associate Curator of Entomology at the California Academy of Sciences.

Richard M. Bohart

In 1946 the Department of Entomology established a research oriented insect collection and Richard Bohart contributed research material in the Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Strepsiptera.

Robert E. Page, Jr.

With support from the G.I. Bill, he received his undergraduate degree in entomology, with a minor in chemistry, from San Jose State University in 1976.

Rustem Devletovich Zhantiev

In 1960 he graduated from Department of Entomology in the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University.

Saulius Pakalniškis

Saulius Pakalniškis (born 15 June 1958 in Staškūniškis, Anykščiai district municipality - 21 February 2006) was Lithuanian zoologist, entomologist and dipterologist (researcher of flies).

Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve

The Gravel Pits' SSSI notification also notes the growing botanical and entomological interest of the site, with thirteen species of Odonata (dragonflies) including the locally-distributed downy-emerald dragonfly Cordulia aenea.

Stuart W. Frost

Stuart W. Frost (1891 - 1990) was a professor of entomology at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

T.C. Narendran

Thekke Kuruppathe Narendran (February 24, 1944 – December 31, 2013) was an Indian entomologist specializing in the systematics of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera).

William Schaus

William Schaus (January 11, 1858 New York City – June 20, 1942) was an American entomologist who became known for his major contribution to the knowledge and description of new species of the Neotropical Lepidoptera.

Zeyaur Khan

Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, Research on insect-plant interactions in cotton


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