William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes (April 23, 1885

Westborough Westborough is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 21,567 at the 2020 Census, in over 7,000 households. Incorporated in 1717, the town is governed under the New England open town meeting system, headed ...

– April 12, 1968

Worcester Worcester may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Worcester, England, a city and the county town of Worcestershire in England ** Worcester (UK Parliament constituency), an area represented by a Member of Parliament * Worcester Park, London, Englan ...

) 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 ...

who specialized in

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

and

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 ...

Works

Partial list Coleoptera *The wing-venation of the Coleoptera. ''Annals of the Entomological Society of America'' 15:328–345, pls.29–35 (1922). *The wing folding patterns of the Coleoptera. ''Journal of the New York Entomological Society'' 34:42–68, 91–115, pls.7–18 (1926). Lepidoptera *''The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States'': 1. Primitive forms, Microlepidoptera, Pyraloids, Bombyces. Memoir 68. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 729 p. (1923). *''The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States'': 2. Geometridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Lymantriidae. Memoir 274. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 263 p. (1948). *''The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States'': 3. Noctuidae. Memoir 329. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 433 p. (1954) *''The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States'': 4. Agaristidae through Nymphalidae including butterflies. Memoir 371. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 188 p. (1960)

External links

*William L. Brown, Jr. Robert L. Clausen, John G. Franclemont (1968)
William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes, April 23, 1885 – April 12, 1968
at ecommons.library.cornell.edu * {{DEFAULTSORT:Forbes, William Trowbridge Merrifield American entomologists 1885 births 1968 deaths 20th-century American zoologists