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Francis Buchanan White
Scottish entomologist and botanist

Francis Buchanan White

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Scottish entomologist and botanist
A.K.A.
F.B.White
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Perth, United Kingdom
Place of death
Perth, United Kingdom
Age
52 years
Family
Children:
Mary Ann Clementina Margaret White
Education
University of Edinburgh
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society
 
Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
 
Francis Buchanan White
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Francis Buchanan White

Francis Buchanan White (20 March 1842, Perth – 3 December 1894, Perth) was a Scottish entomologist and botanist.

He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After doing a Grand Tour in 1866, he settled in Perth where he would remain his entire life. His main area of interest was the Lepidoptera and the taxonomy of the Hemiptera. He was the author ofnumerous scientific papers, published in the Scottish Naturalist, Journal of Botany, and The Proceedings and Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science. White was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and the Linnean Society.

In 1883, Buchanan White redescribed the known species of the Hemiptera genus Halobates and he illustrated 11 species in colour, with numerous drawings in black and white of structural details. This was one of the parts of the Challenger Report.

Halobates plate from the Challenger Report, 1883

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