William Edward Shuckard (1803,

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– 10 November 1868,

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) was an English bookseller and

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 also librarian of the

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and translated ''Manual of Entomology''

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(1807-1892). He was a specialist 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 ...

but worked on

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

in his early years.

Publications

Partial list * A Description of the Superior Wings of the Hymenoptera. ''Trans. Ent. Soc., London'', Vol. I., p. 208, 1836. * ''Essay on the indigenous fossorial Hymenoptera : comprising a description of all the British species of burrowing sand wasps contained in the metropolitan collections, with their habits as far as they have been observed'' 1837 * ''Elements of British Entomology''. London, 1839. * with Spry, W. ''The British Coleoptera Delineated'' 1840. * Monograph of the Dorylidae, a family of these Hymenoptera Heterogyna. ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist''. (1)5: 258-271 (1840). * ''British Bees. An Introduction to the Study of the Natural History and Economy of the Bees Indigenous to the British Isles'' (1866) Shuckard described many of the Hymenoptera collected by

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on the Voyage of the Beagle. He was a Fellow of the

Entomological Society of London The Royal Entomological Society is a learned society devoted to the study of insects. It aims to disseminate information about insects and to improve communication between entomologists. The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological S ...

References

*Anthony Musgrave (1932). ''Bibliography of Australian Entomology'', 1775–1930, with biographical notes on authors and collectors, Royal Zoological Society of News South Wales (Sydney) : viii + 380.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shuckard, William Edwards English entomologists Hymenopterists 1803 births 1868 deaths Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society