Eugene Gordon Munroe (8 September 1919 – 31 May 2008) was a Canadian

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who discovered numerous species of

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s. He worked for the Insect Systematics and Biological Control Unit, Entomology Division in

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, Canada. Munroe was "the acknowledged authority on the

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worldwide for many years". From 1976 to 1982, he also served as editor-in-chief of ''Moths of America North of Mexico''.

Authored taxa

Taxa named by Eugene G. Munroe In biology, a taxon ( back-formation from '' taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular ...

Publications

Monroe published more than 200 papers, including: * Munroe, E.G. 1948: The geographical distribution of butterflies in the West Indies. Ph.D. thesis. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. * Munroe, E.G. 1959: New Pyralidae from the Papuan Region (Lepidoptera). ''The Canadian Entomologist'', 91(2): 102–112. * Munroe, E.G. 1960: New Tropical Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). ''The Canadian Entomologist'', 92(3): 164–173. * Munroe, E.G. 1960a: A New Genus of Pyralidae and its Species (Lepidoptera). ''The Canadian Entomologist'', 92(3): 188–192. * Munroe, E.G., Mutuura, A. 1968: Contributions to a study of the Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) of temperate East Asia II. ''The Canadian Entomologist'', 100(8): 861–868. * Munroe, E.G., Mutuura, A. 1968a: Contributions to a study of the Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) of temperate East Asia I. ''The Canadian Entomologist'', 100(8): 847–861. doi: 10.4039/Ent100847-8. * Mutuura, A., Munroe, E.G. 1970: Taxonomy and distribution of the European corn borer and allied species: Genus Ostrinia (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). ''Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada'', 112 (supplement 71): 1–112. * Shaffer, J.C. & Munroe, E., 1989. Type Material Of 4 African Species Of Notarcha Meyrick, With Designations Of Lectotypes And Changes In Synonymy (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Pyraustinae). ''Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington'' 91: 248-256 *Shaffer, J.C. & Munroe, E., 1989. Type material of two African species of Herpetogramma and one of Pleuroptya (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Pyraustinae). ''Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington'' 91: 414-420

References

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