Curtis Williams Sabrosky (3 April 1910, Sturgis, Michigan – 5 October 1997) was an American

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. He specialized in

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

, especially

Chloropidae The Chloropidae are a family of flies commonly known as frit flies or grass flies. About 2000 described species are in over 160 genera distributed worldwide. These are usually very small flies, yellow or black and appearing shiny due to the virtu ...

. Sabrosky worked at the

Systematic Entomology Laboratory Systematic may refer to: Science * Short for systematic error * Systematic fault * Systematic bias, errors that are not determined by chance but are introduced by an Accuracy and precision, inaccuracy (involving either the observation or measur ...

United States Department of Agriculture The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the United States federal executive departments, federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, ...

and at the

National Museum of Natural History The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. In 2021, with 7 ...

, where his collection is now located.

Partial list of publications

Diptera

*Insects of Macquarie Island Diptera Chloropidae, Milichidae ''Pacific Inse''cts 4 (4): 308–311 (1964). *1999, Family-Group Names in Diptera, ''Myia'', 10:1–576. Important systematic/nomenclatural work (PDF format). *With Wirth, WW, Foote, RH and Coulson, JR: ''A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico''. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. 1696 pp. (1965).

Asteiidae

*Contributions to the knowledge of Old World Asteiidae. ''Revue francaise d'entomologie'' (Nouvelle Serie) 23:216–243.

Chloropidae and Milichidae

*Milichidae and Chloropidae (Diptera from the

Batu Caves Batu Caves ( ta, பத்து மலை : Pathumalai) is a mogote (a type of karst landform) that has a series of caves and cave temples in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. It takes its name from the Malay word ''batu'', meaning 'rock'. The hill ...

, Malaya. Pacific Insects 6 (2): 308–311 (1964).

Tachinidae The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true fly, flies within the insect order Fly, Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1,300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in t ...

*Identification of ''Winthemia'' of America north of Mexico, with a revised key to the females (Diptera, Tachinidae). ''Annals of the Entomological Society of America'' 66: 1035–1041. (1973). *A revised key to the Nearctic species of ''Lespesia'' (Diptera: Tachinidae).

Annals of the Entomological Society of America Annals ( la, annāles, from , "year") are a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record. Scope The nature of the distinction between ann ...

73: 63–73 (1980). With P.H. Arnaud, Jr. Family Tachinidae (Larvaevoridae). pp. 961–1108 in Stone, A., et al. (eds.), ''A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico''. United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook 276: 1–1696 (1965). *With R.C. Reardon: Tachinid parasites of the

gypsy moth ''Lymantria dispar'', also known as the gypsy moth or the spongy moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. ''Lymantria dispar'' is subdivided into several subspecies, with subspecies such as ''L. d. dispar'' and ''L. d. japonica'' bei ...

, ''Lymantria dispar'', with keys to adults and puparia. ''Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America'' 10(2): 1–126.(1976).

References

American entomologists 1910 births 1997 deaths 20th-century American zoologists People from Sturgis, Michigan Presidents of the Entomological Society of America Dipterists {{US-entomologist-stub