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Professor
Lynn S. Kimsey
PhD
Alma materUniversity of California, Davis
OccupationAcademic entomologist
EmployerUniversity of California, Davis
Websiteentomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/facpage.cfm?id=kimsey

Lynn Kimsey is an entomologist, taxonomist, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis since 1989.[1] Her specialties are bees and wasps; and insect diversity.[1]

She received a doctorate in entomology from UC Davis in 1979[1] and joined the faculty there in 1989.[1]

She has described almost 300 new species.[1] In 2020 she was awarded the C. W. Woodworth Award by the Entomological Society of America. [2]

Her husband Robert Kimsey is a forensic entomologist in the UC Davis Department of Entomology.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "UC Davis Entomologist Discovers New Species of Wasp: Gigantic Wasp with Long, Powerful Jaws". UC Davis Department of Entomology. 2011-08-19. Archived from the original on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  2. ^ "Winners of the C. W. Woodworth Award". Entomological Society of America. Retrieved 25 August 2020.