Richard Siddoway Bagnall
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Richard Siddoway Bagnall (14 July 1889, Winlaton
near Whickham
-19 January 1962) was an English
entomologist who specialised in Thysanoptera. Bagnall worked on world fauna and described many new genera
and species
and wrote 1912 Some considerations regard to the classification of the order Thysanoptera. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10 (55): 220-222 (1912) and Further considerations in regard to the classification of the order Thysanoptera. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (ser.10), 5: 571-575 (1930) important works on the higher classification
of the Thysanoptera.
Winlaton
Winlaton is a village situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. Once an independent village in County Durham, it became incorporated into the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and Borough of Gateshead in 1974....
near Whickham
Whickham
Whickham is a town in North East England, four miles south west of Newcastle upon Tyne and four and a half miles west of Gateshead. Whickham is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Its postal address is Whickham, Newcastle upon Tyne. Whickham is situated on high ground overlooking the...
-19 January 1962) was an English
England
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entomologist who specialised in Thysanoptera. Bagnall worked on world fauna and described many new genera
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
and species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
and wrote 1912 Some considerations regard to the classification of the order Thysanoptera. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10 (55): 220-222 (1912) and Further considerations in regard to the classification of the order Thysanoptera. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (ser.10), 5: 571-575 (1930) important works on the higher classification
Biological classification
Biological classification, or scientific classification in biology, is a method to group and categorize organisms by biological type, such as genus or species. Biological classification is part of scientific taxonomy....
of the Thysanoptera.