Australian Museum

A Guide to Entomology Collectors

Dana Anderson 11/7/2014

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Quick Guide to Collectors Labels – click on the

collectors name to be taken to their biography.

BANCROFT, Thomas L.

BICKEL, Daniel J.

BRITTON, David R.

BROOKS, John G.

BULBERT, Matthew

CAMPBELL, Thomas G.

CARNABY, Keith

CASSIS, Gerasimos A.

CHADWICK, Clarence E.

COURTNEY-HAINES, Lawrence M.

DANIELS, Greg

DAY, Barry J.

DE KEYZER, Roger

DISNEY, Henry John de Suffren

DOBSON, Roderick

DODD, Frederick P.

DOOLAN, Dallas A.

DU BOULAY, Francis H.

EASTWOOD, Rodney G.

ELGNER, Hermann

ELLIOTT, Michael G.

ENGLISH, Kathleen M.I.

EVANS, John W.

GIBBONS, Charles

GINN, Scott G..

GOLDFINCH, Gilbert M.

GOLLAN, John R.

HANLON, T.M.S

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HARDY, George H.H.

HOLLOWAY, Geoffrey A.

KENT, Deborah S.

LASSAU, Scott A.

MCALPINE, David K.

MCEVEY, Shane F.

MCKEOWN, Keith C.

MIDDLETON, Bertram L.

MOSSE-ROBINSON, Leslie H.

MOULDS, Maxell S.

MULDER, Rudolph H.

MUSGRAVE, Anthony

NICHOLSON, Alexander J.

PONDER, Winston F.

POPE, Elizabeth C..

RENTZ, David C.F.

ROBINSON, Vic J..

RODD, Norman W.

SCHUH, Randall T.

SKUSE, Frederick A.A.

SMITHERS, Courtenay N.

SPENCE, Kenneth K..

SUNDHOLM, Allen

TATARNIC, Nikolai

THEISCHINGER, Günther

TILLYARD, Robin J.

TONNOIR, André L.

TURAK, Eren

WARD, Melbourne

WATERHOUSE, Gustavus A.

WHITLEY, GILBERT P.

WILLIAMS, Geoffrey A.

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BANCROFT, Thomas L.

Dr Thomas Lane Bancroft was a medical naturalist who was born in Nottingham, England in 1860, and arrived in Brisbane in 1864. He was educated at Edinburgh University where he gained his M.B. in 1878 and a Ch.M. in 1883 with the bronze medal for botany. In 1894 he moved to Deception Bay, where he did his best work. He discovered that female mosquitos, thought to be short lived and dependent on blood meals, would survive for weeks on bananas. In 1899, using Culex fatigans mosquitos which he had reared and fed on a patient with filariasis, he defined and illustrated each stage of the larval worm over a developmental period of sixteen days. From 1905-06 he held temporary appointments with the State Health Department investigating dengue fever, beriberi and the plague. He correctly suspected but failed to prove that the Aedes aegypti was the carrier of dengue fever. He freely provided material for fellow scientists which led to recognition of many new species in freshwater algae, eucalypts, mosquitos, fruit-flies, spiders, fish and snakes, many of which were named after him. He collected around Australia, predominantly in Queensland.

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BICKEL, Daniel J.

Dr Daniel (Dan) John Bickel has a Ph.D. in Entomology and is a Senior Research Scientist at the Australian Museum. He has an interest in the systematics and ecology of Diptera and has research interest in empidoid Diptera (Empididae and Dolichopodidae). He is currently working on a 3 year ARC Discovery Grant to investigate the source and the inclusions of insect and plants that are found in amber washed up on the beaches of the Northern Cape York Peninsula. He collected around Australia from 1980 onwards.

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BRITTON, David R.

Dr David (Dave) Britton currently works at the Australian Museum as Branch Head of Natural Sciences & Biodiversity Conservation. He has an extensive background in entomology with research interests in insect conservation, pest management of insects in field crops, nutritional and behavioural ecology and the taxonomy of moths. Dave has been involved with various projects such as the BushBlitz program, Council of Heads of Faunal Collections, Council of Heads of Entomological Collections, Australian Faunal Directory and the Atlas of Living Australia. He collected around Australia during the 2000’s.

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BROOKS, John G.

John George Brooks was born in Townsville. He moved to Geraldton, Western Australia and it was here where his interest in Coleoptera developed. He graduated as a dental surgeon from the University of Queensland. During 1940-1946 he served with the Royal Australian Dental Corps in Australia and New Guinea and upon his return to Australia he took up a practice. He was one of the most respected and best known entomologists and his Coleoptera collection was presented to the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC). He collected around Australia, predominantly in Queensland.

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BULBERT, Matthew

Matthew Bulbert worked at the Australian Museum from 2000-09. He is a behavioural ecologist whose interests are with rare fauna and flora, particularly invertebrates and looking at the role of natural selection in the evolution of animal communication. He collected around Australia, predominantly in Western Australia during the 2000’s.

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CAMPBELL, Thomas G.

Thomas Graham Campbell was an Australian entomologist. He was Assistant Entomologist at the Australian Museum from 1920-1928. He was the Entomological Assistant to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Canberra and later became Research Officer in the Division of Entomology at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). He undertook two entomological surveys of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the first carried out on behalf of the Department of Civil Aviation in 1952, and the second for the CSIRO Division of Entomology in 1964. He also surveyed the insects of Christmas Island in 1964. He collected a variety of insects, but generally focused on Diptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera in Queensland, New South Wales and northern Western Australia from the early 1920’s to the late 1960’s.

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CARNABY, Keith

Keith Carnaby was a Western Australian entomologist and a Coleoptera collector, who specialised in Buprestidae. His collection of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera is considered only second to that of the British Museum. His collection of North American Jewel Beetles was donated to the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) in 1988 and the Australian specimens were donated in 1994. He collected predominantly in Western Australia from 1923 until the 1980’s.

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CASSIS, Gerasimos A.

Dr Gerasimos Cassis worked as a Principal research Scientist at the Australian Museum. He works with the systematics, biodiversity and ecology of insects. His research interests are in the systematics of Heteroptera, particularly those located in the Australian region. He previously worked at the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC), CSIRO where he worked on the systematic catalogues of the Australian Heteroptera and Scarabaeoidea. Currently his work is concerned with the systematics of the Australian scutellerids and pentatomids. He collected all around Australia.

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CHADWICK, Clarence E.

Clarence Chadwick was an entomologist and a taxonomist. He worked as a curator and a taxonomist of the insect collection in the Department of Agriculture from 1947 until his retirement in 1974. He spent 14 years working as a volunteer Research Associate at the Australian Museum. It was at the Department of Agriculture where he began collecting seriously and his passion for collecting insects continued well into his retirement. He made a generous bequest to the Australian Museum and in accordance with his wishes; custom-built storage cabinets were purchased to house the Museum’s insect collection. The funds were also used to provide an annual fellowship; The Chadwick Biodiversity Fellowship. He published 112 scientific papers and founded the New South Wales Entomological Society. His library and collection of insects was donated to ANIC in February 1999. He collected a variety of insects all around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales.

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COCKS, Graeme

Graeme Cocks is an amateur entomologist who started an online pictorial catalogue of the plants and animals around Townsville, called Insects of Townsville. He is a contributor to the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project since 2006. He has collected a variety of insects around Australia, predominantly in Queensland.

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COURTNEY-HAINES, Lawrence M.

Lawrence Courtney-Haines was an amateur Lepidoptera collector who lived in Sydney most of his life. He did most of his collecting from New South Wales in the Sydney Basin area and parts of the New South Wales North Coast. His collection was donated to the Australian Museum.

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DANIELS, Greg

Greg Daniels predominantly collected Diptera and Lepidoptera. He currently works in the University of Queensland Insect Collection (UQIC). He wrote the Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1687-2000. He donated a valuable collection of Diptera to the Australian Museum, which provided valuable data that was used for research work. He collected around Australia from 1960’s onwards.

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DAY, Barry J.

Barry J. Day was an entomologist who worked at the Australian Museum. Alongside Dr David McAlpine, he helped with investigations of insect fauna from rainforests on the far north coast of New South Wales, with special emphasis on Acalyptrate Diptera. He collected around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales.

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DE KEYZER, Roger

Roger de Keyzer is an expert and collector of Cerambycidae. He collected around Australia from 1967-2004. He donated a valuable collection of Coleoptera and Philippine Hymenoptera to the Australian Museum.

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DISNEY, Henry John de Suffren

Henry John de Suffren Disney, better known as John Disney, was an Australian ornithologist, who also had an interest in entomology. He was born in England and educated at Cambridge University. In 1962 he moved to Australia, where he became Curator of Birds at the Australian Museum, a position he held until his retirement. He later became a research associate at the museum. He generally collected birds, however he collected insects around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales from the 1960’s to the 1980’s.

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DOBSON, Roderick

Roderick Dobson was an amateur naturalist, with an interest in entomology, who lived in Australia from 1948-1958. He collected Odonata and various other aquatic insects. Some of the Odonata types from his collection are now held at the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC), whilst others are held in the Natural History Museum in London.

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DODD, Frederick P.

Frederick Parkhurst Dodd lived in Townsville from 1884, where he took up collecting Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. Dodd quickly became a prominent entomologist, acquiring a large collection of insects. Dodd was a famed naturalist who was known as the ‘Butterfly man of Kuranda’. He collected around Australia, predominantly in Queensland in the Wet Tropics and the Brigalow Belt from the 1890’s to the 1940’s. He also spent time in Brisbane collecting Cossidae and Microlepidoptera.

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DOOLAN, Dallas A.

Dallas Andrew Doolan collected around Australia from 1962-88. He donated a valuable collection of Australian Coleoptera to the Australian Museum. He collected around Australia, predominately in New South Wales from 1955-1981.

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DU BOULAY, Francis H.

Francis Houssemayne Du Boulay was born in England and arrived in Perth in 1857. He was known for his collection of Coleoptera in Champion Bay. He was one of the first to collect in the district. He also visited Derby and other ports on the North Western Coast, discovering many new species. In 1870, he collected in Cooktown and Rockhampton. He travelled through Queensland, northern New South Wales and collected about Sydney, Mosman and Double Bay. He returned to Victoria, where he discovered the rare Stigmodera barbiventris Carter, 1916.

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EASTWOOD, Rodney G.

Rodney Gordon Eastwood was born in Sydney but later relocated to the Sunshine Coast. Rodney was a keen naturalist who began rearing and collecting Lepidoptera in Sydney as a teenager. He had an interest in the symbiotic relationship between lycaenid butterflies and ants, which encouraged him to study environmental science at Griffith University. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University during 2001-2002 and Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University during 2003. He collected around Australia, predominantly in Queensland and New South Wales from the 1970’s to the 1990’s.

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ELGNER, Hermann

Hermann Elgner was born in Germany but later settled in Cape York, Australia at the turn of the twentieth century. He collected Lepidoptera and other various insects, with his efforts adding new species to the list of Australian fauna. His Australian collections now form an essential and historic baseline for that region. Parts of his collection are now held at the Australian Museum. He collected around Australia, predominantly in Queensland on the Cape York Peninsula and in the Wet Tropics from 1900-11.

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ELLIOTT, Michael G.

Michael Elliott currently works as a Technical Officer in the Collection Informatics Unit at the Australian Museum. He collected privately from coastal areas around Queensland and New South Wales from 1998 onwards, targeting Hymenoptera.

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ENGLISH, Kathleen M.I.

Kathleen Mary Isabel English was a Diptera taxonomist. She collected from 1930-1962 all around Australia, predominantly in Western Australia.

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EVANS, John W.

Dr John William Evans was born in India and relocated to Australia in 1926, where he originally began working on sharks. He worked as an entomologist in Australia for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture, and in England for the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries before his appointment at the Australian Museum where he was Director from 1954-1966. He implemented changes within the museum that included introducing contemporary display methods. He successfully obtained government funds for additions and expansions to the structure of the museum. This meant that the museum now had work areas designated specifically for scientists and scientific research and an increase in the collection storage space as well. His own research was particularly focused on Hemiptera and Cicadellidae. He collected all around Australia.

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GIBBONS, Charles

Charles Gibbons came to entomology at the age of 65 when he observed a fly-infested peach tree. He collected some of the larvae, constructed glass fronted cages for them, and patiently watched their development. In 1911, at the age of 70, he made a three month camp at Murwillumbah in New South Wales to secure specimens of the larger Cerambycidae. He also collected Apoidea and Hymenoptera but it was Asilidae that took his widest field of interest. In 1925 he donated his collections to the Australian Museum. He collected around Australia, but most of his collecting was done at Roseville and Hornsby in New South Wales.

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GINN, Scott G.

Scott Ginn has been working at the Australian Museum since 2003 and is a trained entomologist, specialising in Lepidoptera and Diptera. He has worked in a variety of technical roles, which include collection management, insect taxonomy and identification, high-resolution digital photography and large scale biodiversity projects. He is currently the technical officer for the Frozen Tissue Collection at the Australian Museum. He collected around Australia, predominantly in Western Australia.

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GOLDFINCH, Gilbert M.

Gilbert Macarthur Goldfinch was born in Double Bay, Sydney in 1887. He was the great-grandson of Captain Philip Gidley King, the third Governor of New South Wales. He was an entomologist who was interested in collecting Lepidoptera. He also had an interest in collecting shells. In 1905 he was a volunteer assistant at the Australian Museum and was later employed as a conchologist. Goldfinch was secretary of the University Club from 1934-1942 and a member since 1912. He was councillor of the Linnean Society of NSW from 1925-1931. He collected all around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales and Queensland from 1906-1941.

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GOLLAN, John R.

John R. Gollan is a research fellow at the University of Technology. In 2004 he began his PhD. with the Australian Museum and The University of New England. His research examined the response of terrestrial invertebrates to riparian revegetation in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. His postdoctoral work at the Australian Museum included a study of the ecology of a non-native bee in NSW, Halictus smaragdulus, examining its distribution, finding out whether it was having any effects on native species, and looking for clues on the history of the introduction. He collected around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales.

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HANLON, T.M.S

T.M.S Hanlon collected all around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales Queensland and Western Australia from 1971-2009.

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HARDY, George H.H.

George Hurlstone Hurdlestone Hardy was an entomologist and engineer. He was acting curator of Tasmanian Museum from 1913-1917 but resigned to come to Sydney, where from 1918-1921 he studied entomology. He formed the Entomological Society, Brisbane in 1923, which in 1926 became the Entomological Society of Queensland. He was part of the group of entomologists that met in Sydney in 1952 and decided to form the Society now known at the Entomological Society of New South Wales. He predominantly collected Diptera and Hemiptera from locations all around Australia, but mostly focused in New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland from 1911 to the late 1960’s. His collection deteriorated badly before reaching the Australian Museum.

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HOLLOWAY, Geoffrey A.

Geoffrey A. Holloway spent much of his time studying Hymenoptera. He carried out work on the Hymenopterous family, Ichneumonoidea. He also studied the introduced species of European Hymenoptera, a species with a considerable pest status. He was Treasurer of the Australian Entomological Society from 1981-84. He collected around Australia, in particular New South Wales and South Australia.

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KENT, Deborah S.

Deborah Susan Kent is an entomologist at the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (DPI). She has done research that looks at exotic plants pests that include insects, mites, fungal and bacterial diseases in the Sydney Basin area. She was awarded an Australian Entomological Society grant (AES) in 1992. She collected around Australia, predominately in New South Wales.

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LASSAU, Scott A.

Scott A. Lassau currently works at the Office of Environment and Heritage. He has investigated responses of ant communities to habitat complexity, with the aim of assessing complexity as a useful surrogate for ant species diversity. He collected around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales and Western Australia from 1999 onwards.

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MCALPINE, David K.

Dr David Kendray McAlpine is an entomologist, who was the principal research scientist at the Australian Museum. He is now retired but still works as a research fellow at the Australian Museum. He got his B.Sc. (Hons) in zoology at the University of Sydney in 1958 and his PhD in entomology at the Imperial College at the University of London in 1969. He spent much of his life studying Diptera, and working on a long-term research project that focused on the systematics, evolution and biology of Australasian acalyptrate Diptera. He has collected in the United Kingdom, Czech Republic and all throughout Australia, predominantly in New South Wales.

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MCEVEY, Shane F.

Shane Furze McEvey is an entomologist and a publisher who currently works at the Australian Museum as the Editor of Records. He graduated in Zoology and Genetics at La Trobe University, and studied evolutionary biology and received his PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In 1992 he edited and scanned all the works of the evolutionist Hugh Paterson and published them in a book, and since then he has digitised a large part of the drosophilid taxonomic literature and has helped to coordinate an Australian Museum project to digitise scientific publications made by the museum. He has been a keen insect collector since he was boy, and during his twenties participated in numerous expeditions to remote tropical forests in parts of Australia and southern Africa. He specialises in the taxonomy of the Dipteran family Drosophilidae and has discovered hundreds of new species in Madagascar, southern Africa, New Guinea, French Polynesia, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and throughout tropical Australia.

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MCKEOWN, Keith C.

Keith Collingwood McKeown wan an entomologist, naturalist and an author. In 1915 he was appointed to the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission at Leeton as a clerk. He joined the Linnean Society of New South Wales in 1917. In 1920 he reported on the presence of the anopheline mosquito in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. In 1927 he was appointed entomological research officer in the commission to work in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture on the various insect pests. In 1929 he was appointed scientific assistant to Anthony Musgrave at the Australian Museum and he later became assistant curator of insects. McKeown published numerous scientific papers on the orders Coleoptera, Neuroptera and Orthoptera. He collected around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales from the 1920’s to the 1940’s.

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MIDDLETON, Bertram L.

Dr Bertram Lindsay Middleton was born in Ireland. He was a medical officer on various ships that travelled around the world before settling in Murrurundi, Australia. He was an amateur collector of Lepidoptera, with a particular interest in Brazilian species. His collection was bequeathed to the Australian Museum. He collected around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales from 1913 to the 1960’s.

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MOSSE-ROBINSON, Leslie H.

Leslie Herbert Mosse-Robinson was one of Australia’s foremost collectors of Lepidoptera. His private collection is said to have contained 97,000 specimens. He contributed some short papers on Lepidoptera to various entomological journals. He was founder of the Entomological Society of New South Wales and had been a member of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and the Rangers League. He mainly collected Lepidoptera from all around Australia, but predominantly focused on the Central Coast area from 1914 to the 1950’s.

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MOULDS, Maxell S.

Dr Maxwell (Max) Sydney Moulds was Collection Manager of Entomology at the Australian Museum from 1990 until his retirement in 2003. His research interests include the systematics and phylogeny of Hemiptera the acoustic mechanisms, systematics and biology of Lepidoptera and Australian entomological literature and the history of entomology. He was awarded the J.C. LeSouef Memorial Medal in 1985. He donated a valuable collection of material to the Australian Museum from widely scattered parts of Australia. He started collecting from the 1960’s onwards all around Australia, in particular Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia. He also collected in Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia.

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MULDER, Rudolph H.

Rudolph Herman Mulder was born in East Java and was an amateur entomologist who collected a variety of insects but had a special interest in Coleoptera. He collected around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales in the Sydney Basin area from 1953-1989.

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MUSGRAVE, Anthony

Anthony Musgrave was curator of entomology at the Australian Museum during 1920-1959. He was appointed assistant to the entomologist W.J. Rainbow and began his life’s work with an insect survey of Sydney’s (Royal) Botanic Gardens. He developed a profound knowledge and published papers on Diptera (notably Nycteribiidae), Hemiptera and Arachnida. He collected a variety of insects but focused on Hymenoptera and Coleoptera all around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales and Queensland from 1910-1959.

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NICHOLSON, Alexander J.

Alexander John Nicholson was an Irish born entomologist who relocated to Australia in 1921. In 1919, at the University of Birmingham, he carried out research on the development of the ovaries in the mosquito, Anopheles maculipennis for which he received an MSc in 1920. In 1921 he was appointed the first McCaughey Lecturer in Entomology at the University of Sydney. Whilst in Australia, he developed a wide knowledge of Australian insects and his study of mimicry and deceptive colouration in Australian insects awarded him a DSc in 1929. He was appointed Deputy Chief, Division of Economic Entomology at the Commonwealth of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Canberra in 1930 and Chief in 1933. He collected all around Australia, in particular Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.

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PONDER, Winston F.

Dr Winston Ponder is a malacologist from New Zealand, with an interest in entomology. He was the principle research scientist in the malacology department of the Australian Museum. He has spent his career building up the Australian Museum mollusc collections. Data from such collections represents by far the largest source of distributional, historical and habitat information for marine invertebrate data. Winston started research on the systematics and anatomy of New Zealand micromolluscs in the early 1960’s. One of his biggest contributions has been on the taxonomy of the Gastropoda that was based on the morphology of snails and slugs. He is the managing editor of the Malacological Society of Australasia, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and the South Australian Museum. He has been the president of the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists and is managing the editor of the journal Molluscan Research. In 2008 he received the Australian Marine Sciences Association Silver Jubilee Award for a lifetime of achievement in research on marine molluscs. He collected around Australia, predominantly in Queensland from 1987-2007.

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POPE, Elizabeth C.

Elizabeth Carrington Pope was a Zoologist with an interest in entomology, who worked at the Australian Museum from 1939-1972. In 1957 she became head of the Worms and Echinoderms department and in 1971 she became Deputy Director as well as department head. After her retirement she continued to contribute to the Australian Museum as an Honorary Associate. She mapped large areas of the Australian coast, doing some of the earliest Australian research in ecology. Her collecting trips during the 1950s included Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia and in 1965 she extended her fieldwork to the Northern Territory.

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REID, Chris A.M.

Dr Chris Reid is research scientist in the entomology department at the Australian Museum. He specialises in Coleoptera, in particular Chrysomelidae. He is interested in the systematics and the taxonomy of the genera. He has also published taxonomic revisions of the Scarabaeinae of Australia and has produced interactive Lucid keys to the Scarabaeinae, Cetoniinae and Anoplognathus of New South Wales. He collected around Australia and East Timor from 1984 onwards.

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RENTZ, David C.F.

Dr David Charles Foster Rentz is an entomologist and an Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow, School of Marine and Tropical Biology at the James Cook University. He received his PhD in entomology from the University of California and worked in Philadelphia and San Francisco before relocating to Australia. He worked at the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) as the Curator of Orthopteroid from 1976-2001. His research specialty is on the Katydids, for which he has published numerous papers and three volumes of a Monograph of Australian Tettigoniidae. He is now retired and currently lives in Kuranda in Queensland where he studies and documents the natural history of the rainforest around his local area. He has collected around Australia, predominantly in Queensland from the 1970’s onwards.

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RIEK, Edgar F.

Edgar Frederick Riek was an entomologist who joined the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Division of Entomology in 1945. He was firstly employed in biological control and then as a taxonomist. He completed his Masters and Ph.D and was involved in the research of fossil insects. In 1971 he established a vineyard near Lake George, New South Wales, and in 1996 was awarded the Order of Australia for services to the wine industry and entomology. He collected all around Australia.

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ROBINSON, Vic J.

Vic J. (Robbie) Robinson was an amateur entomologist who was born at Rous in the Richmond River District of northern NSW. It was at Rous where his collecting activities began. After his retirement in 1963 he devoted all of his time to building up his collection of Micro-Lepidoptera. His collection had over 60,000 specimens. He collected all around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales.

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RODD, Norman W.

Norman Rodd collected around his local area of Lane Cove in Sydney from 1943-1999. He was successful in collecting twigs containing galleries, eggs, larvae and adults of several species of Exoneura, especially E. Roddiana Raym. He donated a valuable collection of Hymenoptera to the Australian Museum.

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SCHUH, Randall T.

Dr Randall Schuh currently works at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) as George T. Willett Curator Emeritus, Division of Invertebrate Zoology. The main focus of his work is on the systematic study of the 40,000 species of Heteroptera. His program of field and revisionary work on the family Miridae has encompassed North America, South America, South Africa and Australia. He has worked to create a phylogenetic classification for the Miridae subfamily Phylinae and in the process has described nearly 100 genera and more than 600 species. In 2011 he spearheaded a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study plant-herbivore-parasitoid interactions through the creation of a large-scale specimen database, which involves the collaboration of seven institutions and 25 additional zoological and botanical collections. He has collected around North and South America, South Africa and Australia.

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SCHWARTZ, Michael

Dr Michael Schwartz is an entomologist with an expertise in the systematics of Heteroptera, especially Miridae. His current research projects include is the partnership with Tri-Trophic Thematic Collection Network Collaborative Research that focuses on plants, herbivores and parasitoids, the new genera and species of Orthotylini from Mexico and the online resource, The Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI) for Plant Bugs. From 2001-2003 he was awarded the Australian Museum Visiting Research Fellowship. From 1998 to the present he has been a Research Associate, Section of Invertebrate Biology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and a Research Associate at the Agriculture and Agri-Food (AAFC) in Canada. He has collected around the United States and Australia.

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SKUSE, Frederick A.A.

Frederick Arthur Askew Skuse was a student at the British Museum who later migrated to Australia for work as an entomologist. He arrived during the late 1880’s and was engaged by William Macleay to work on Australian Diptera. He was appointed Scientific Assistant in the Entomology Department of the Australian Museum during 1890. He specialised in Diptera, particularly Nematocera and collected throughout New South Wales from 1888-1890.

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SMITHERS, Courtenay N.

Dr Courtenay Neville Smithers was born in South Africa and educated in England. He graduated from Rhodes University in 1951 and subsequently carried out research on Glossina in Africa. He developed an interest in Psocoptera. He was appointed curator of entomology at the Australian Museum in 1960, which at this stage included the curation of Arachnida, Chilopoda and Dromopoda, requiring a period of rapid learning. He developed a design for modular cabinets that allowed workers to move specimens freely without risking any damage to the specimens. His legacy is that the Australian Museum now has the best developed Psocoptera collection in the Southern Hemisphere. He collected around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales.

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SPENCE, Kenneth K.

Dr Kenneth Kinross Spence was an entomologist and physician who spent much of his free time collecting insects. He has a particular interest in collecting Coleoptera and Hemiptera from his local area and from other parts of Queensland, Sydney and Papua New Guinea from 1907-1937. He Completed a Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM) at the University of Sydney in 1920. Most of his collected specimens are housed at the Australian Museum.

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SUNDHOLM, Allen

Allen Sundholm predominantly collected Buprestidae and Scarabeidae. He collected all around Australia, but mostly in New South Wales in the Sydney Basin area from the 1960’s onwards. Most of his collection is currently held at the Australian Museum.

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TATARNIC, Nikolai

Dr Nikolai Tatarnic is a biologist who specialises in the evolution and systematics of Australasian and Indo-Pacific insects. He combines morphological, molecular and behavioural studies to explore various aspects of the evolution and diversity of Heteroptera and Orthoptera. He is particularly interested in the role of sex in evolution and how sexual selection drives morphology and behaviour and both micro- and macroevolutionary scales. He collected around Australia, predominantly in Western Australia.

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THEISCHINGER, Günther

Gunther Theischinger is an amateur entomologist who collected around Australia, Greece and Spain from 1976 onwards. His collection of Diptera, larval Odonata, Tipulidae, Plecoptera and Megaloptera was donated to the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC). He won the J.C. LeSouef Memorial Award from the Entomological Society of Victoria in 1989 for excellence in research by an amateur entomologist. He had a lifelong interest in aquatic insects and had described more than 60 new species and several new genera of Australian Odonata. He has been a visiting scientist at the ANIC in Canberra and is a Research Associate at the Australian Museum and a visiting fellow at the Smithsonian Institute in the USA.

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TILLYARD, Robin J.

Dr Robin John Tillyard was an English born entomologist and naturalist, who relocated to Australia. In 1904 he was appointed a mathematical and science master at Sydney Grammar School, where he remained until 1913. In 1904 he took up the study of Odonata and from 1905 onwards published a large number on original papers on Odonata, Chrysopidae and Mecoptera. He published on almost all orders of insects, but was especially interested in insect evolution and fossil insects. He received many honours and was a member of man scientific bodies. His collection was bequeathed to the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) in Canberra, the Australian Museum and the British Museum of Natural History. He collected around Australia from, predominantly in New South Wales and Queensland from the early 1900’s to the 1930’s.

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TONNOIR, André L.

Andre Leon Tonnoir was a Belgium born entomologist and ecologist, who relocated to Australia in 1921. His first entomological post was as an assistant to the dipterist; M. Goetghebuer, at the Musee d’Histoire Naturelle in Brussels. Dr R.J. Tillyard convinced Tonnoir to come to Australia and after studying certain entomological problems in Australia, made his way to New Zealand and took up residence in Nelson as a Research Student at the Cawthron Institute until 1924. In that year he accepted the position of Assistant Curator of the Canterbury Museum at Christchurch, where he was also Lecturer in Entomology at Canterbury College. He eventually followed Tillyard to Canberra as Senior Ecologist and Curator at the Division of Economic Entomology. He collected around Australia, mainly in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. He also spent some time in Tahiti, studying the early stages of Simuliidae.

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TURAK, Eren

Eren Turak was born in Turkey and immigrated to Australia in 1982. He currently works as a Research scientist at the Office of Environment and Heritage at the Australian Museum. He collected around Australia, mainly in New South Wales from 1993-2001.

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WARD, Melbourne

Charles Melbourne Ward was an actor, naturalist and marine collector, who had an interest in entomology. He developed a fascination of crabs and collected in Australia, Samoa, Fiji, Hawaii, Cuba, Panama, Mexico and along the Atlantic and Californian coasts. He was a member, fellow and life-member of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Ward also belonged to the Royal Australian Historical Society, the Royal Linnean and Anthropological societies of New South Wales and the Art Galleries and Museums Association of Australia and New Zealand. He was appointed honorary zoologist at the Australian Museum in 1929 and collected for them during 1930. He left his scientific collections, library and personal collection to the Australian Museum. At least 16 species and subspecies are named after him.

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WATERHOUSE, Gustavus A.

Gustavus Athol Waterhouse was an honorary entomologist for the Australian Museum from 1919 and a trustee from 1926-1947. In 1924 his work on the hybridisation of subspecies belonging to the genus Tisiphone earned him a doctorate and a university medal. He was particularly known for his Lepidoptera collection. When he was president in 1930, he presented his collection and library to the Australian Museum. He collected around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales in the Sydney Basin area and the New South Wales North Coast from 1895-1950. He also collected from the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.

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WHITLEY, GILBERT P.

Gilbert Percy Whitley was a British-born Australian ichthyologist who also had a passion for entomology. He migrated to Australia in 1921 when he was 17, and in 1922 he began a cadetship with the Australian Museum, whilst completing his studies in zoology. In 1925 he was appointed the position of ichthyologist at the Australian Museum, a position he held for 53 years until he retired. He specialised in researching fish species from Australia, the pacific and Papua New Guinea. Over the span of his career he identified, tagged and registered over 37, 000 specimens, of which 320 new species were discovered by him. He was known to continually embark on collecting expeditions with his friends Tom Ireland and Anthony Musgrave and provided. He also provided a number of references that were of historical and entomological importance to Anthony Musgrave. He was particularly interested in the insects of Tasmania, Eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island.

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WILLIAMS, Geoffrey A.

Dr Geoffrey Williams is a pollination ecologist and conservation biologist with a background in entomology and invertebrate biogeography. He is a Research Associate with the Australian Museum and has particular interest in the pollination of rainforest plants, ecosystem management and forest rehabilitation. He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for research into Australia’s biodiversity and habitat restoration and he has received a number of awards for contributions to entomology. He collected around Australia, predominantly in New South Wales from 1963-2010.