David Sharp (entomologist)

David Sharp FRS (15 August 1840 – 27 August 1922) was an English physician and entomologist who worked mainly on Coleoptera.

[edit] Principle Publications

1869 A revision of the British species of Homalota. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1869(2-3), 91-272.

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1874 The Staphylinidae of Japan. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1874: 1–103. See also 1888
1876 Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1876: 27-424.
1880-1882 Monograph On Aquatic Carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 2: 1-800.
1888 The Staphylinidae of Japan. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (6)2,. 277–477. 1876
1882- 1886 (1882-1886) Staphylinidae. Pp. 145-824. In: 1882-1887. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Coleoptera. 1(2). London: Taylor & Francis, xvi+824 pp., 19 plates.
1887 Pselaphidae. Pp. 1-46. In: 1887-1905. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Coleoptera. 2(1). London: Taylor & Francis, xii+717 pp., 19 plates.
1891 Syntellidae. In: Biologia centrali- americana. Coleoptera, Insecta. Coleoptera. 2(1). London: Taylor & Francis. 438-440.

1896 - 1913 With Robert Cyril Layton Perkins and Alfred Newton Fauna Hawaiiensis.
1912 with Frederick Arthur Godfrey Muir. The comparative anatomy of the male genital tube in Coleoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. III: 477-462, 36pls. (p. 523, pl. 60, figs. 107-109, male genitalia

Sharp also contrbuted to two Catalogues of British Coleoptera (with Oliver Erichson Janson, in 1871, and with William Weekes Fowler, in 1893.