Abraham Willink (13 January 1920,

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, Friesland – 8 February 1998, Tucumán) was a Dutch-

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. His main contributions were made on the

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

n families Vespidae,

Sphecidae The Sphecidae are a cosmopolitan family of wasps of the suborder Apocrita that includes sand wasps, mud daubers, and other thread-waisted wasps. The name Sphecidae was formerly given to a much larger grouping of wasps. This was found to be p ...

and Crabronidae. He also contributed to the classification of biogeographical provinces of Latin America. His role was of great interest in the decentralization of science, especially in Entomology in Argentina.
3 Genera and 52 species has been named after him.vid
CLAPS, Lucía E., Guillermo L. CLAPS & Fernando R. NAVARRO: ''Abraham Willink: impulsor de la descentralización de la entomología argentina''
in: Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, versión impresa ISSN 0373-5680

Selected works

*Willink, A. 1969. Las especies del género ''Incodynerus'' Willink (Hym., Eumenidae). Acta Zool. Lilloana 24: 65-88. *Cabrera, A.L. & A. Willink. 1980. Biogeografía de América Latina. Segunda edición. Monografía 13, serie biología. Programa Regional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, Organización de los Estados Americanos. 122 pp. + 1 map. *Willink, A. 1982. Revisión de los generos ''Montezumia'' Saussure and ''Monobia'' Saussure (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae). Bol. Acad. Nac. Cienc., Cordoba 55: 3-321. *Willink, A. and A. Roig-Alsina. 1998. Revisión del genero ''Pachodynerus'' Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae). Contrib. Am. Entomol. Inst. 30 (5): 1-117.

References

1920 births 1998 deaths Dutch entomologists Dutch expatriates in Argentina People from Drachten 20th-century Dutch zoologists 20th-century Argentine zoologists {{Argentina-scientist-stub