- Eugene O'Mahoney
Eugene O'Mahoney ( 1899
Dublin - 21 June 1951Dublin ) was an Irishmuseum curator andentomologist who worked onColeoptera ,Mallophaga andSiphonaptera .O'Mahoney worked in the National Museum, Dublin. He was a Technical Assistant working with
Albert Russell Nichols ,James Nathaniel Halbert andArthur Wilson Stelfox .O’Mahoney wrote over fifty articles on Irish Coleoptera between 1924 and 1951 (listed in Ryan et al. (1984) pp. 80-83.) Most appeared in the
Entomologist's Monthly Magazine and many introduced new national and county records.Works
"Coleoptera" in Praeger R.L. (ed.) Report on recent additions to the Irish fauna and folra (terrestrial and freshwater) "Proc. R. Irish Academy", 93(B), pp. 22-36(1929).
Collections
12,209 species in the Hope Department of Entomology , University Museum, The collection is accompanied by manuscript material including a notebook titled 'Records of beetles in Co.Dublin (North East)' and there is some correspondence.
ources
Obituary in INJ, 10, 1952, pp. 229-230.
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