Gilbert John Arrow

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Gilbert John Arrow (20 December 1873

entomologist
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Gilbert was the son of John Garner Arrow of Streatham, London. He initially trained as an architect but took an interest in insects from 1896 during which time he was a Deputy Keeper on the staff of the

Coleoptera and noted stridulation in the larvae and adults of Lamellicorn beetles.[1]

Works

In The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, published by the British government in India, he contributed:

  • Lamellicornia 1. Cetoniinae and Dynastinae (1910)
  • Lamellicornia 2. Rutelinae, Desmonycinae, Euchirinae (1917)
  • Clavicornia : Erotylidae, Languriidae & Endomychidae (1925)
  • Lamellicornia 3. Coprinae (1931)

Other (partial list)

  • Sound-production in the lamellicorn beetles. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1904)
  • On the characters and relationships of the less-known groups of Lamellicorn Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species of Hybosorinae, etc. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 57: 479-507.(1909)
  • Scarabaeidae: Pachypodinae, Pleocominae, Aclopinae, Glaphyrinae, Ochodaeinae, Orphninae, Idiostominae, Hybosorinae, Dynamopinae, Acanthocerinae, Troginae. Coleopterorum Catalogus pars 43, W. Junk, Berlin. 66 pp.(1912)
  • A nomenclatural note (Coleopt.) Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London (B) 9(1): 16. (1940).

Notes

  1. ^ Rao, BR Subba (1998) History of entomology in India. Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Bangalore.

Sources

  • Blair 1948: [Arrow, G. J.] - Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 84

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