Lionel Jack Dumbleton (1905 – 25 September 1976) was a New Zealand entomologist. He was born in Hampden, New Zealand and was a founding member of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.[1] Dumbleton was one of the entomologists studying insects on the 1949 New Zealand American Fiordland Expedition.[2]
One of his most remarkable biological discoveries was a new genus of caddis-fly-like primitive moths that he described as Agathiphaga[3] and which has been subsequently raised to superfamily level as the second most primitive known living lineage of moths, Agathiphagoidea.[citation needed]
In 1998 a new genus of hepialid moths was named Dumbletonius in his honour, and Hort Research has a building in Auckland named after him.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Lowe, A. D.; Ramsay, G. W. (4 January 1977). "Lionel Jack Dumbleton: 1905-1976". New Zealand Entomologist. 6 (3): 208–212. Bibcode:1977NZEnt...6..208L. doi:10.1080/00779962.1977.9722251 – via CrossRef.
- ^ Alick Lindsay Poole, ed. (1951). "Preliminary reports of The New Zealand - American Fiordland Expedition". Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 103. Wellington: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 1–99. ISSN 0077-961X. Wikidata Q125475906.
- ^ Dumbleton, L (1952). "A new genus of seed-infesting micropterygid moths". Pacific Science. 6: 17–29.
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