Oscar Ling Cartwright (April 12, 1900 – March 21, 1983) 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 specialized in

scarab beetles The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change. Several groups formerly tre ...

.Oscar Ling Cartwright
at the SIA archives. He was Associate Curator of Entomology and the head of the Division of Coleoptera at the Smithsonian Institution 1948-1963. He is commemorated in the scarab genus ''

Cartwrightia ''Cartwrightia'' is a genus of Scarabaeidae, scarab found in Latin America. It was named and circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 1958 by Federico Islas Salas. , three species are recognized: ''Cartwrightia intertribalis, C. intertribalis ...

'' as well as 16 insect species.

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