Hong-Fu Chu (or Hong-Fu Zhu) ( zh, s=朱弘复; 13 January 1910 – 24 January 2002) was a Chinese entomologist known for his pioneering work in establishing entomology in China. He was a specialist on insect immatures and was among the pioneers in the use of

chaetotaxy Chaetotaxy is the arrangement of bristles (macrochaetae) on an arthropod or annelid, or taxonomy based on their position and size. For example, it is important in Diptera, in which group it was formalised by Ernst August Girschner. The term chaet ...

in the classification of

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n larvae. Chu was born in 1910 in

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, Jiangsu province where he went to school. He received a BS degree from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

in 1935 and took an interest in zoology and entomology. He went to the University of Illinois in 1941 to study entomology under W.P. Hayes and V.E. Shelford. He received a MS in 1942 and a PhD in 1945. Chu's book ''How to the Know the Immature Insect'' (1949) was a well-known entomology text for many years in the United States of America. After working for a year in the

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on the taxonomy of

sawflies Sawflies are wasp-like insects that are in the suborder Symphyta within the order Hymenoptera, alongside ants, bees, and wasps. The common name comes from the saw-like appearance of the ovipositor, which the females use to cut into the plant ...

with H.H. Ross, and a year at the Wesleyan University, he returned to China. In 1950 he was invited by the Chinese Academy of Science to establish an institute of entomology in Beijing. He invited other entomologists like Chongle Liu, Banghua Cai, Jinren Lu, Junde Qin, and Shijun Ma to work at the institute. He began to organize the publishing of ''Fauna Sinica'' and a series on the economic insects of China. He helped train students in

phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics () is the study of the evolutionary history of life using observable characteristics of organisms (or genes), which is known as phylogenetic inference. It infers the relationship among organisms based on empirical dat ...

systematics and wrote a textbook on animal systematics.

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''How to know the immature insects'' (1949)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chu, Hong-Fu 1910 births 2002 deaths Chinese entomologists 20th-century Chinese zoologists University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni