Frederick Wallace Edwards
British entomologist
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| Intro | British entomologist | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Zoologist Entomologist | |
| Work field | Biology | |
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| Birth | 28 November 1888, Peterborough, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, East of England | |
| Death | 15 November 1940London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom (aged 51 years) |
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Biography
Frederick Wallace Edwards FRS (28 November 1888 in Fletton, Peterborough – 15 November 1940 in London), was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera.
Edwards worked in the British Museum (Natural History) which contains his collections made on his expeditions to Norway and Sweden (1923), Switzerland and Austria (1925), Argentina and Chile (1926/27), with Raymond Corbett Shannon, Corsica and USA (1928), the Baltic (1933), Kenya and Uganda (1934), with Ernest Gibbins, and the Pyrenees (1935).
The mosquito genus Fredwardsius is named to honor his work establishing the generic and subgeneric framework which forms the basis for modern day systematics of the Culicidae of the world.
Works
For a partial list of works see the references in Sabrosky's Family Group Names in Diptera