Orlando Park

Orlando Park (born Oct. 13, 1901, Elizabethtown, Ky., U.S.—died Sept. 23, 1969, Evanston, Ill.), American entomologist.

• Specialized on Pselaphinae – short-winged, mold beetles that commonly live in ant nests (Coleoptera).

• 103 taxon names authored by Orlando Park

1942

• Park, O. 1942. A study in Neotropical Pselaphidae. Northwestern University Studies in the Biological Sciences and Medicine. Number 1. Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. X + 403 pp., 21 pls.

1943

• Park, O. 1943. A preliminary study of the Pselaphidae (Coleoptera) of Mexico. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 7: 171–226.

1945

• Park, O. 1945. A preliminary study of the Pselaphidae (Coleoptera) of the Guianas. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 7: 277–327.
• Park, O. 1945. Further studies in Pselaphidae (Coleoptera) of Mexico and Guatemala. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 7: 331–443.

1949

• Park, O. 1949. The genus Connodontus (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 8: 251–265.
• Park, O. 1949. New species of Nearctic pselaphid beetles and a revision of the genus Cedius. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 8: 315–343, pls. 1–8.

1951

• Park, O. 1951. Cavernicolous pselaphid beetles of Alabama and Tennessee, with observations on the taxonomy of the family. Geological Survey of Alabama Museum Paper 31: 1–107.

1952

• Park, O. 1952: Pselaphidae of Oceania, with special reference to the Fiji Islands. Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin 207: iii + 60 pp. Reference page. 
• Park, O. 1952. A revisional study of Neotropical pselaphid beetles. Part two. Tribe Euplectini sensu latiore. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Special Publication 9(2): 53–150 [incl. 7 pls.].

1953

• Park, O. 1953. New or little known pselaphid beetles of the United States, with observations on taxonomy and evolution of the family Pselaphidae. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 9(14): 249–283.
• Park, O. 1953. Discrimination of genera of pselaphid beetles of the United States. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 9: 299–331.
• Park, O. 1953. A new genus of pselaphid beetles from the Everglades. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Natural History Miscellanea No. 121, 4 pp.

1954

• Park, O. 1954. The Pselaphidae of South Bimini Island, Bahamas, British West Indies (Coleoptera). American Museum novitates 1674: 1–25.
• Park, O. 1954. A new genus of pselaphid beetles from the Antilles. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Natural History Miscellanea No. 138, 4 pp.

1955

• Park, O. 1955. Contribution to the pselaphid beetle fauna of Jamaica. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 10: 101–122.
• Park & Schuster 1955. A new subtribe of pselaphid beetles from California. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Natural History Miscellanea No. 148, 6 pp.

1956

• Park, O. 1956. New or little known species of pselaphid beetles from southeastern United States. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 31: 54–100.

1960

• Park, O. 1960. Pselaphid beetles of Jamaica. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 79: 5–25.
• Park, O. 1960. Cavernicolous pselaphid beetles of the United States. American midland naturalist 64: 66–104.

1962

• Park, O. & Pearce, E.J. 1962. Simkinion, a new genus of pselaphid beetles from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 75: 251–258. BHL Reference page. 
• Park, O. & Wagner, J.A. 1962. Family Pselaphidae, pp. 4–31, pls. 1–10. In: M. H. Hatch, The Beetles of the Pacific Northwest. Part III: Pselaphidae and Diversicornia I. University of Washington Publications in Biology 16: ix + 503 pp.

1964

• Park, O. 1964. Insects of Campbell Island. Coleoptera: Pselaphidae. Pacific insects monograph 7: 391–394. Full article (PDF) on BUGZ Reference page. 

1965

• Park, O. 1965. Revision of the genus Batriasymmodes (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 84: 184–201.

1976

• Park, O. [new taxa] In: Park, O., Wagner, J.A. & Sanderson, M.W. 1976. Review of the Pselaphid Beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Fieldiana: Zoology 68: i–xi, 1–90.