Frederic John Sidney Parry (28 October 1810 – 1 February 1885,

Bushey Heath Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England. It has a population of over 25,000 inhabitants. Bushey Heath is a large neighbourhood south east of Bushey on the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow re ...

) was an English

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 ...

who specialised in

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

, principally Lucanidae. Frederic Parry was educated at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

. He was an army major (

17th Lancers The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1759 and notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. The regiment was amalgamated with the 21st Lanc ...

1831 retired 1835). He wrote "Description of a new genus of Lucanidae from New Zealand" (1843), "A decade or description of ten new species from the Kasya Hills near the boundary of the Assam district" (1845) and 17 further papers. The last was "Description of a new species of Chiasognathus"Chiasognathus granti
(1876). "Catalogue of Lucanoid Coleoptera with illustrations and descriptions of various new and interesting species" (1864–66, revised 1870) listed 357 species. Parry was a friend of John Obadiah Westwood and lived at Onslow Square, London, close to the Natural History Museum, then the British Museum (Natural History). He was a Fellow of both the Entomological Society of London and the Linnean Society. Many of Parry's specimens ('at one time he had a general collection of Coleoptera, but latterly it was limited to Lucanidae and Cetoniidae, the former being very valuable, and probably the most complete in existence') were purchased by René Oberthür and other dealers and collectors. They are now conserved in the Natural History Museum ( Cerambycidae, Elateridae, Heteromera,

Anthribidae Anthribidae is a family of beetles also known as fungus weevils. The antennae are not elbowed, may occasionally be longer than the body and thread-like, and can be the longest of any members of Curculionoidea. As in the Nemonychidae, the labrum ...

, Lucanidae, Cetoniinae and

Cleridae Cleridae are a family of beetles of the superfamily Cleroidea. They are commonly known as checkered beetles. The family Cleridae has a worldwide distribution, and a variety of habitats and feeding preferences. Cleridae have many niches and fe ...

). Duplicate specimens from these families and all the

Paussidae Ant nest beetles ( subfamily Paussinae) or paussines, some members of which are known also as flanged bombardier beetles, are a large subfamily within the ground beetles (Carabidae).The tribes Metriini, Ozaenini, Paussini and Protopaussini are in ...

are in

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in Paris. Two well-known stag beetles described by Parry are ''

Lucanus swinhoei ''Lucanus swinhoei'' is a herbivorous beetle of the family Lucanidae. It is endemic to Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwester ...

'' and ''

Odontolabis castelnaudi ''Odontolabis castelnaudi'' is a beetle of the family Lucanidae. References * Lacroix, J.-P., 1984 - ''The Beetles of the World ''The Beetles of the World'' is a series of books devoted to Coleopterology. Sciences Nat published the 24 first vo ...

''.

Notes

References

* Anonym 1885: arry, F. J. S.''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' (3) 21 240.

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A catalogue of Lucanoid Coleoptera : with illustrations and descriptions of various new and interesting species by Major F.J. Sidney Parry ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' Vol 2, pt. 1. Digitised text and plates 1810 births 1885 deaths People educated at Harrow School English entomologists 17th Lancers officers Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society {{UK-entomologist-stub