James Chester Bradley (1884 in

West Chester, Pennsylvania West Chester is a borough (Pennsylvania), borough and the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in the Delaware Valley, Philadelphia metropolitan area, the borough had a population of 18,671 at the 2020 census. West ...

– 1975 in

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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 ...

who specialised in

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the 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 parasitic. Females typi ...

. He graduated from

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(A.B. 1906, Ph.D. 1910) and the

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(M.S. 1907). He was an assistant professor of entomology at Cornell from 1911 to 1920, and professor and curator of invertebrate zoology from 1920 to 1952. James Chester Bradley wrote very many entomological papers. He is especially known for his works on Evaniidae and

Scoliidae The Scoliidae, the scoliid wasps, are a family of wasps comprising about 560 species worldwide. They tend to be black, often marked with yellow or orange, and their wing tips are distinctively corrugated. Males are more slender and elongated than ...

References

*Osborn, H. 1952 ''A Brief History of Entomology Including Time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to Modern Times with over Five Hundred Portraits''. Columbus, Ohio, The Spahr & Glenn Company : 1–303, 58 plates.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bradley, James Chester American entomologists Hymenopterists 1975 deaths 1884 births 20th-century American zoologists Cornell University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Cornell University faculty