George Willis Kirkaldy
George Willis Kirkaldy (1873 , Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera. He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.
Kirkaldy 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 the 1906 Leafhoppers and their Natural Enemies. Pt IX. Leafhoppers - Hemiptera (Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association Division of Entomology 1(9): 271-479), and the 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 a Greek suffix that is pronounced "KISS-me". Kirkaldy prefaced the names of the various species he discovered with various women's names from alleged romantic conquests. [1]
His collections of Auchenorrhyncha and Heteroptera are in the Natural History Museum, London, the University of Kansas (Snow Collection,[2] the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
[edit] References
- ^ Krulwich On Science by Robert Krulwich, "What Goes Into Naming A New Species? A Lot" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94886658
- ^ Entomology at the University of Kansas at www.nhm.ku.edu
- 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.
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