Arthur Ward Lindsey (1894,

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– 1963,

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) was an American

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

. Arthur Ward Lindsey was educated at Morningside College in

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gaining his Bachelor of Arts in 1916. Collecting butterflies from his youth, he published his first publication (The Butterflies of

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) in 1914. For his PhD he studied the private Lepidoptera collection of

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(1860-1930) in

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. That began a friendship with

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(1877-1962) Barnes curator. In 1919, he argued his doctoral thesis entitled The Hesperioidea of America, North of Mexico. The same year, he replaced McDunnough, as Curator at Decatur a function he held until 1921. Barnes and Lindsey published in the same year a revision of the

Pterophoroidea The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings, giving them the shape of a narrow winged airplane. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are ...

. Lindsey was the main author. After teaching at Morningside College, he became in 1922 Professor and Director of the Department of Zoology of

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in Granville, Ohio. He retained these functions until his retirement in 1960. Lindsey was the author of many works on the

Hesperioidea Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilion ...

, including a revision of his thesis in 1931 under the title of Hesperiidae of North America with Roswell Carter Williams Jr (1869-1946) and Ernest Layton Bell (1876-1964). He was also the author of five books on Zoology as well as on genetics and evolution. He also directed the publication, from 1945 to 1948 of the Annals of the Entomological Society of America. His collection of 6, 000 specimens and 28 types is maintained by the

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in Pittsburgh.

Publications

*''Textbook of Evolution and Genetics'' (1929) *''The Hesperioidea of North America'' (1931) *''The Problems of Evolution'' (1931) *''A Textbook of Genetics'' (1932) *''The Science of Animal Life'' (1939) *''Principles of Organic Evolution'' (1952) 1894 births 1963 deaths American entomologists People from Council Bluffs, Iowa Morningside University alumni Denison University faculty 20th-century American zoologists {{US-entomologist-stub