George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873 , Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera. He was educated in England, then went to Hawaii in 1903 to work for the United States Department of Agriculture then for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station. Kirkaldy was the author of. Leafhoppers and their Natural Enemies. Pt IX. Leafhoppers - Hemiptera Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association Division of Entomology 1(9): 271-479 (1906), and (1909) Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and anatomical references, lists of foodplants and parasites Berlin and very many taxonomic papers describing new species and genera.Amongst his generic names are Ohchisme, Dolichisme, Elachisme, Florichisme, Isachisme, Marichisme, Nanichisme, Peggichisme, and Polychisme. '-chisme' is pronounced 'KISS-me.'" His collections of Auchenorrhyncha and Heteroptera are in the Natural History Museum, London, the University of Kansas (Snow Collection [1], the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

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Anonym 1910: [Kirkaldy, G. W.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (2) 46 95-96
Anonym 1910: [Kirkaldy, G. W.] Entomologist 43 73-74
Bueno, J. R. de la Torre 1910: [Kirkaldy, G. W.] Ent. News 21 240-242
Bueno, J. R. de la Torre 1910: [Kirkaldy, G. W.] Can. Ent. 42 97-99
Burr, M. 1910: [Kirkaldy, G. W.] Ent. Rec. J. Var. 22 122-124
Dolling, W. R. 1991. Bibliographies of the works of W. L. Distant and G. W. Kirkaldy. Tymbal, suppl. no. 1: 60 pp.