Richard Charles Froeschner (March 8, 1916 – May 2, 2002) was an American
entomologist
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. He was born in
Chicago
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, Illinois. He married
Elsie Herbold Froeschner, a
scientific illustrator
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, on October 6, 1940.
He attended the
University of Missouri
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in
Columbia, Missouri
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, and earned a M.S. and Ph.D. from Iowa State College, under mirid bug specialist Harry H. Knight.
He was an assistant/associate professor at Montana State College from 1954 to 1960, when he briefly took a position with the USDA Division of Insect Identification in Washington DC, then returned to Missoula. He came back to DC as a U.S. National Museum research entomologist for the Smithsonian in 1963, where he worked until retirement in 1995. He remained active in Heteroptera research until 2001. During his career,Dick Froeschner published 131 entomological papers, mostly on Heteroptera, and treated taxa in 10 families and two suborders, describing new to science two subfamilies, eight genera, and 111 species.
His works on insects included:
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Legacy
Taxa named in his honor include:
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Froeschneriella''
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Froeschnerisca''
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Replacement name
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for ''Froeschneriella'' )
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Froeschneropsidea''
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1916 births
2002 deaths
American entomologists
20th-century American zoologists
University of Missouri alumni
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