Timeline of entomology - post 1900
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- Walter Reed, a United States Army major, was appointed president of a board "to study infectious diseases in Cuba paying particular attention to yellow fever." He concurred with Carlos Finlay in idenitifying mosquitoes as the agent.
- Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia publishes y Catálogo sinóptico de los ortópteros de la fauna ibérica.
- Kálmán Kertész , Mario Bezzi, Paul Stein (entomologist) and Theodor Becker published the first part of a Palaearctic Catalogue of Diptera Katalog der Paläarktischen dipteren in Budapest.
- William Francis de Vismes Kane A catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland-the third (and first comprehensive) catalogue of the Irish macrolepidoptera.
- Augustus Daniel Imms General textbook of Entomology published. 10th revised edition (1977) still one of the most widely used of all insect texts.
- Ronald Ross gained Nobel Prize for Medicine for his discovery that malaria is carried by mosquitoes.The awarding committee made special mention of the work of Giovanni Battista Grassi on the life history of the Plasmodium parasite.
- Charles W. Woodworth A List of the Insects of California published.
- Philogene Auguste Galilee Wytsman started Genera Insectorum , a multi-authored series that consisted of 219 issues, the last occurring in 1970.
- William Morton Wheeler appointed curator of invertebrate zoology in the American Museum of Natural History , New York
- Adolfo Lutz Beitraege zur Kenntniss der brasilianischen Tabaniden. Rev. Soc. Sci. São Paulo 1: 19-32, published
- Adelbert Seitz , Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde commenced. This vast work on Lepidoptera was published in German, English and French. It contained colour plates of all important species.
- William Lundbeck Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark commenced.
- Herbert Druce On Neotropical Lycaenidae, with Descriptions of New Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
- Henry Christopher McCook Nature's Craftsmen: Popular Studies of Ants and Other Insects.
- Edmund Reitter Fauna Germanica - Die Käfer des Deutschen Reichescommenced. This five volume masterwork remains in use today, almost 100 years from its inception.
- George Henry Verrall Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies published.
- Carlos Chagas observed the peculiar infestation of rural houses in Brazil with Triatoma, a "kissing" bug, later demonstrating that it was the vector of Trypanosoma cruzi, and he was able to prove experimentally that it could be transmitted to marmoset monkeys that were bitten by the infected bug. His description of the new disease was to become a classic in medicine and brought him domestic and international distinction.
- Charles Nicolle reasoned that it was most likely lice that were the vector for epidemic typhus.He tested his theory by infecting a chimpanzee with typhus, retrieving the lice from it, and placing it on a healthy chimpanzee. Within 10 days the second chimpanzee had typhus as well.
- Gilbert John Arrow published the first volume of Fauna of British India: Lamellicornia 1. Cetoniinae and Dynastinae. Arrow wrote five volumes of this classic work.
- Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Stichel Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Fam. Riodinidae.published in J. Wytsman Genera Insectorum 112A completed 1911).
- Hans Fruhstorfer published Family Pieridae in Adalbert Seitz ' Macrolepidoptera of the world
- Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius wrote Part 39 of Catalogus Coleopterorum Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae (1912). Aurivillius worked on world insects.
- Charles Paul Alexander A synopsis of part of the Neotropical Crane-flies of the subfamily Limnobinae (Tipulidae).
- Erwin Lindner joined the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart.
- Otto Kröber Therevidae.Genera.Ins published.
- Friedrich Georg Hendel Die Arten der Platystominen. Abh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 8 (1): 1-409, 4 pls. published
- The Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica, was first discovered in the United States in Riverton, New Jersey during mid-August, 1916.
- Alfred Kinsey became Professor of Entomology at Indiana University Bloomington.
- Ernst Jünger publishes In Stahlgewittern, The Storm of Steel.
- Enrico Adelelmo Brunetti Fauna of British India Diptera 1. Brachycera published.
- Günther Enderlein Über die phyletisch älteren Stratiomyiidensubfamilien (Xylophaginae, Chiromyzinae, Solvinae, Beridinae und Coenomyiinae). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. 10: 150-214 published.
- Auguste-Henri Forel publishes a myrmecological 5-volume magnum opus, Le Monde Social des Forimis
- Frederick William Frohawk 's Natural History of British Butterflies published.
- Frank M. Carpenter begins work on the Elmo Permian fossil fauna.
- Ronald A. Senior-White and Robert Knowles Malaria: Its Investigation and Control, with Special Reference to Indian Conditions. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co published.
- José María Hugo de la Fuente MoralesTablas analíticas para la clasificación de los coleópteros de la Península Ibérica. Barcelona Imprenta Altés, published.
- Camillo Acqua Il bombice del Gelso:Nello stato normale e patologico nella tecnica dell'allevamento e della riproduzione. (Industria della preparazione del seme Bachi)-Enc. tela. Casa Ed. di Giuseppe Cesari,published. This was an important contribution to the literature on sericulture.
- Georg Hermann Alexander Ochs publishes Über die Gyriniden-Ausbeute der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition mit einer Übersicht über die Gyriniden-Fauna Javas und Larvenbeschreibungen.
- A Practical Handbook of British Beetles by Norman H. Joy published by Witherby.
- René Malaise invents the Malaise trap.
- Vincent B. Wigglesworth, the "Father" of Insect Physiology, wrote the first book on insect phsyiology, The Principles of Insect Physiology.
- Gerhard Schrader discovers the powerful insecticides called organophosphates
- Walter Rothschild gives his insect collection, one of the world's largest collections of Lepidoptera to the Natural History Museum.
- The Natural History Museum, London acquires the James John Joicey collection of Lepidoptera.
- Vladimir Nabokov begins organizing the butterfly collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
- Ruggero Verity commenced Farfalle,in English Butterflies, of Italia (five volumes, 1940-1953).
- René Jeannel Faune cavernicole de la France, in English The Fauna of the Caves of France, published.
- Woodhouse, L. G. O. & George Morrison Reid Henry. The Butterfly Fauna of Ceylon. Government Record Office, Colombo
- Edmund Brisco Ford Butterflies published . Seminal introduction to the study of butterflies and their genetics.
- Cynthia Longfield The Odonata of South Angola. Arquivos do Museu Bocage, 16, Lisboa.
- Carlo Alonza became director of the Muséum de Gênes.
- Maynard Jack Ramsay becomes Port Entomologist on Staten Island.
- Mahadeva Subramania Mani founded the School of Entomology at Agra, India.
- Work on Sterile insect technique begun by American entomologists Raymond Bushland and Edward Knipling. For their achievement, they jointly received the 1992 World Food Prize.
- Willi Hennig publishes Grundzüge einer Theorie der phylogenetischen Systematikin Berlin. This was followed by
Kritische Bemerkungen zum phylogenetischen System der Insektenin 1953 and Phylogenetic Systematics in 1966. In these works Hennig founded cladistics.
- Sydney Skaife African Insect Life published.
- Roy Albert Crowson's The natural classification of the families of Coleoptera is published. This is a classic monograph.
Clodoveo Carrión Mora died in Ecuador. Mora was a leading figure entomology of 20th century entomology in South America.
- Czesław Bieżanko publishes Álbum iconográfico dos Lepidópteros coletados por Biezanko. Papilionidae.
1961–65
- Genetic code is cracked. DNA was discovered by Friedrich Miescher in 1868, recognized as the bearer of genetic information in 1943 and revealed as a double helix by Rosalind Franklin in 1952. This leads to radical revision of the higher taxonomy of the Insecta.
- Morris Rockstein’s edited series—3 vols.—The Physiology of Insecta
- First international Red Lists of endangered species were published.
- Reg Chapman’s textbook appears—The Insects-Structure and Function. American Elsevier, N.Y.
- Karl von Frisch awarded Nobel Prize for pioneering work on insect behaviour.
- Anastase Alfieri The Coleoptera of Egypt published.
- Robert Michael Pyle published The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies. Knopf.
- Árpád Soós and Lazlo Papp begin editing Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera.1984 - 1992.
- Murray S. Blum Fundamentals of Insect Physiology. New York: Wiley, 1985.
- Forensic entomologist Mark Benecke joins the punk rock band "Die Blonden Burschen" , The Blonde Boys. Many past entomologists were also musical.
- Hölldobler B. and E. O. Wilson publish The Ants
- Naumann, I. D., P. B. Carne, J. F. Lawrence, E. S. Nielsen, J. P. Spradberry, R. W. Taylor, M. J. Whitten and M. J. Littlejohn, eds. The Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers. Volume I and II. Second Edition. Carlton, Victoria, Melbourne University Press.
- Edward Grumbine, Ghost Bears: Exploring the Biodiversity Crisis reflects growing concerns. Insects are major indicators
of environmental destruction and impending mass extinction.
- Hoy, M. Insect molecular genetics. An introduction to principles and applications.
- Perry Adkisson receives World Food Prize for his work on Integrated Pest Management.
- Paul R. Ehrlich publishes Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (1998, co-authored with his wife)
- Phylocode proposed following a meeting at Harvard University.
- Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen instrumental in setting up the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
First volume of American Beetles published.Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and Michael C. Thomas.
Alex Rasnitsyn with D.L.J. Quicke History of Insects. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Gilbert, L.I. (ed.). 2004. Comprehensive molecular insect science, 7 vols. Elsevier Pergamon, published in St. Louis
- A paper in Science found that Culex pipiens mosquitoes existed in two populations in Europe, one which bites birds and one which bites humans. In North America 40% of Culex pipiens were found to be hybrids of the two types which bite both birds and humans, providing a vector for West Nile virus. This is thought to provide an explanation of why the West Nile disease has spread more quickly in North America than Europe.
- The Insect Biocontrol Laboratory at the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in the United States develops DNA fingerprinting tools that match hard-to-identify larvae to adults that have been positively identified.
- Michael S. Engel and David Grimaldi Evolution of the Insects published.
[edit] See also
- Timeline of entomology — for a list of other available time periods
- List of entomologists
