George F. Edmunds (entomologist)
George F. Edmunds Jr. (April 28, 1920–March 4, 2006) was an American
Biography
George F. Edmunds Jr. was born in
Edmunds, with Traver, reworked the taxonomy of the Ephemeroptera, starting in 1954.[3][4] In 1979, with W. P. McCafferty, he proposed a new "higher classification" of the group, with two suborders, Pannota and Schistonota.[5]
Edmunds described and named 35 new genera and 79 new species of mayfly.[2]
Honors and distinctions
The 7th International Conference on Ephemeroptera, at the University of Maine in August 1992, was dedicated to Edmunds.[1] The mayfly experts Janice G. Peters and Michael D. Hubbard described him as "the greatest of living North American researchers on Ephemeroptera".[1] W. P. McCafferty, making the dedicatory address at that conference, called him "the first biogeographer of Ephemeroptera", and listed 114 of his publications on mayflies. Ten species and two genera (Edmundsius and Edmundsula) of mayfly are named after him, along with a beetle, a cranefly, and a stonefly.[2]
His book on the mayflies of North and Central America
Works
- Edmunds, George F.; Jensen, Steven L.; Berner, Lewis (1976). The Mayflies of North and Central America. ISBN 978-0-8166-0759-4.
- Edmunds, George F.; McCafferty, W. P. (1988). "The mayfly subimago" (PDF). Annual Review of Entomology. 33 (1): 509–527.
References
- ^ ISSN 0165-0424.
- ^ a b c d e f McCafferty, W. P. (1995) [1992, as Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Ephemeroptera, University of Maine, August 1992]. "George Edmunds, Ephemeropterist Par Excellence". Current Directions in Research on Ephemeroptera (PDF). Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press.
- ^ Edmunds, G. F. Jr.; Traver, J. R (1954). "An outline of a reclassification of the Ephemeroptera". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington (56): 236–240.
- ^ Edmunds, G. F. Jr.; Traver, J. R (1954). "The classification of the Ephemeroptera. I. Ephemeroidea: Behningiidae". Annual Review of the Entomological Sociwety of America (52): 43–51.
- ^ McCafferty, W. P.; Edmunds, George F. (1979). "The Higher Classification of the Ephemeroptera and Its Evolutionary Basis" (PDF). Annals of the Entomological Society of America (72): 5–12.
- ^ Edmunds, Jensen & Berner 1976.
- ^ Edmunds & McCafferty 1988.