Philip Steven Corbet was a British entomologist whose work focused largely on aquatic insects and dragonflies specifically. He co-authored and authored several books on the subject including Dragonflies: behaviour and ecology of Odonata (1960, expanded and updated in 1999), A Biology of Dragonflies (1962) and Dragonflies (2008) which established him as a world expert on the Order Odonata

Odonata

Odonata is an order of insects, encompassing dragonflies and damselflies . The word dragonfly is also sometimes used to refer to all Odonata, but the back-formation odonate is a more correct English name for the group as a whole...

. He is also remembered for his interest in biological controls as a substitute for synthetic pesticides in agriculture.