- Philip James Barraud
Philip James Barraud (1879-1948), was an English
entomologist who specialised inmosquitoes . He worked inIraq andIndia where he invented the Barraud cage (a box of made of muslin or organdie suspended on a wire frame placed inside insulators containing wet towels) for the transport and study of live mosquitoes.Barraud described many new genera andspecies ofCulicidae . His collection, which includedPalearctic Lepidoptera is in theNatural History Museum . The genus "Barraudius" Edwards, F.W., 1921 is named for him.Works
Partial list:
* Two new species of Culex (Diptera, Culicidae) from Assam. "Indian J. Med. Res". 11: 507-509 (1923).
* A revision of the culicine mosquitoes of India, Part XXIII. The genus Aedes (sens. lat.) and the classificationof the subgenus. Descriptions of the Indian species of Aedes(Aedimorphus), Aedes (Ochlerotatus), and Aedes (Banksinella.),with notes on Aedes (Stegomyia) uariegatus. "Indian J. Med.Res". 15: 653-69. (1928)
* A review of the culicine mosquitoes of India. Part XXIV. The Indian species of the subgenera Skusea and Aedes, with descriptions of eight new species, and remarks on amethod for identifying the females of the genus Aedes. "Indian J. Med. Res". 16: 357-75. (1928).1934. TheFauna of British India , including Ceylon and Burma.Diptera V, family Culicidae, tribes Megarhinini and Culicini.Taylor and Francis, London. 463 p.(1934).
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