Arthur Mills Lea
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Arthur Mills Lea (10 August 1868 – 29 February 1932) was an Australian
entomologist
.
Lea was born in Surry Hills, New South Wales, the second son of Thomas Lea, from Bristol, England, and his wife Cornelia, née Dumbrell, of Sydney. As a child, Lea was interested in insects and studied them in his spare time. He worked for a
entomologist for the minister of Agriculture at Sydney in 1891. In 1895 he became government entomologist in Western Australia. Then in 1899 he was appointed government entomologist in Tasmania, where he succeeded in controlling the codling moth
.
From 1912 to 1924 Lea taught at
parasite, eventually finding one in Malaya, of the family Tachinidae. However, the flies died on transport by ship to Fiji. Later on, the same fly species was introduced to Fiji without Lea getting credit. (see John Douglas Tothill
)
Lea also collected specimens in
Entomological Society of London
.
His zoological author abbreviation is Lea.[1]
References
- ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Ropterus Lea, 1908". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- E. G. Matthews, 'Lea, Arthur Mills (1868 - 1932)', MUP, 1986, pp 31–32. Retrieved on 2009-07-17
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Lea, Arthur Mills". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
- University of Melbourne - brief biography.
External links
- Obituary Notice of Arthur Mills Lea- Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia[permanent dead link]
- Obituary Notice Sydney Morning Herald2 April 1932
- Australian Postal History
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