George Arnold (1881,

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who specialised in

aculeate Aculeata is a subclade of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps. The name is a reference to the defining feature of the group, which is the modification of the ovipositor into a stinger. However, many members of the group cannot ...

Hymenoptera (particularly

ants Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,00 ...

sphecid The Sphecidae are a cosmopolitan family of wasps of the suborder Apocrita that includes sand wasps, mud daubers, and other thread-waisted wasps. The name Sphecidae was formerly given to a much larger grouping of wasps. This was found to be ...

wasps and

pompilid Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species in six subfamilies. Nearly all species are solitary (with the exception of some group-ne ...

wasps). From the

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he was appointed to the Department of Cytology and Cancer Research at Liverpool and then only worked on Hymenoptera as a hobby. In 1911 he became curator, and later director, of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia, Bulawayo. The butterfly species '' Anthene arnoldi'', or Arnold's hairtail, was named after him by Neville Jones in 1918.

Works

Many scientific papers in ''Annals of the South African Museum'' and ''Occasional Papers: National Museum of Southern Rhodesia.''

References

*Pinhey, E.C.G. 1977. ''Rhodesia Science News'' 11(8): 205. *Varley, G.C. 1963. The President's remarks. ''Proceedings Royal Entomological Society of London'' (C) 27: 50.

External links

biodiversityexplorer.org
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