Digging for Dyar: The Man Behind the Myth

Author: Epstein Marc E.   Henson Pamela M.  

Publisher: Entomological Society of America

ISSN: 2155-9902

Source: American Entomologist, Vol.38, Iss.3, 1992-01, pp. : 148-171

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Abstract

STUDENTS OF ENTOMOLOGY usually learn of Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. (1866–1929) in relation to Dyar's law of geometric growth. An important figure in early twentieth-century entomology, Dyar described numerous moths and mosquitoes and brought new, more precise standards to larval description, higher classification, and life histories (Forbes 1929, Heinrich 1929).