John Frederick Perkins

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(5May 191014May 1983) was an

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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 ...

. He was born in

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, Devon, the son of Zoë Lucy Sherrard Alatau and

Robert Cyril Layton Perkins Robert Cyril Layton Perkins FRS (15 November 1866 – 29 September 1955) was a distinguished British entomologist, ornithologist, and naturalist noted for his work on the fauna of the islands of Hawaii and on Hymenoptera. He is not to be co ...

, also a hymenopterist. He was first educated at Newton College (

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) and graduated with a First class Honours degree from the

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in 1932. In 1933, he was appointed an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Entomology

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where he specialised in Hymenoptera. He was a

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of the

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Works

Partial list *1959 Ichneumonidae, key to subfamilies and Ichneumoninae 1. ''Handbk Ident. Br. Inse''cts 7 (Part 2ai), 1–116.

. *1960 Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea: Ichneumonidae, subfamilies Ichneumoninae 2, Alomyinae, Agriotypinae and Lycorininae. ''Handbk Ident. Br. Insects'' 7 (Part 2aii), 1–96. Royal Entomological Society. *1962 Perkins, J.F. 1962. On the type species of

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's genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 11:385-483. *1976. Hymenoptera Bethyloidea. ''Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects'' 6 (3a), 1–38. Royal Entomological Society.

References

*Quinlan, J. and Huddleston, T. 1983 erkins, J. F. ''Antenna'', London 7 (3) 120, Portrait English entomologists Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society Hymenopterists 1910 births 1983 deaths 20th-century British zoologists {{entomologist-stub