Ephraim Porter Felt

Ephraim Porter Felt

Ephraim Porter Felt (7 January 1868 Salem - 14 December 1943) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera

Ephraim Felt worked mostly Nemtocera and particularly Cecidomyiidae.However he was the State Entomologist New York State and so worked with all insects of economic or medical significance. He wrote "Insects affecting park and woodland trees". New York State Museum Memoir 8 (1905-1906) and "Plant galls and gall makers" Ithaca, N.Y., Comstock Pub. Co. (1940) as well as describing over 1,000 species in scientific journals. The holotypes of the Felt named insect species are in the National Museum of Natural History.Felt was the author of the mosquito genus "Culiseta".

References

*Howard, L. O. 1930 "History of applied Entomology (Somewhat Anecdotal)". Smiths. Miscell. Coll. 84.
*Mallis, A. 1971 "American Entomologists". Rutgers Univ. Press New Brunswick 399-402, Portr.

External links

* [http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/pubs/pub.asp pdfs of papers on mosquitoes]
*worldcat id|lccn-no96-13471


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