James Edward Collin
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James Edward Collin was an English
entomologist who specialised in Diptera
.
He was the author of Empididae. British Flies, Volume 6. University Press, Cambridge (1961). This was the third volume in an uncompleted series begun by his uncle George Henry Verrall
.
Collin wrote extensively on Diptera of most families of Diptera (excepting those in Nematocera
). The specimens collected by Collin and his uncle Verrall are in the Hope Entomological Collections at the University of Oxford. The OUM website provides a searchable database of the new species they described.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and its president 1927–1928.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
entomologist who specialised in Diptera
Diptera
Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...
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He was the author of Empididae. British Flies, Volume 6. University Press, Cambridge (1961). This was the third volume in an uncompleted series begun by his uncle George Henry Verrall
George Henry Verrall
George Henry Verrall was a British horse racing official, entomologist, botanist and Conservative politician.-Horse racing:...
.
Collin wrote extensively on Diptera of most families of Diptera (excepting those in Nematocera
Nematocera
Nematocera , is a suborder of elongated flies with thin, segmented antennae and mostly aquatic larvae, consisting of the mosquitoes, crane flies, gnats, and midges....
). The specimens collected by Collin and his uncle Verrall are in the Hope Entomological Collections at the University of Oxford. The OUM website provides a searchable database of the new species they described.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and its president 1927–1928.
External links
- Bishop Museum Portrait
