Alexander Henry Haliday
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Alexander Henry Haliday, also known as Enrico Alessandro Haliday and Alexis Heinrich Haliday (1807–1870), was an Irish entomologist. He is primarily known for his work on Hymenoptera, Diptera and Thysanoptera, but Haliday worked on all insect orders and on many aspects of entomology.
Haliday was born in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland. A boyhood friend of Robert Templeton he divided his time between Ireland and Lucca, now part of Italy, where he was a co-founder with Camillo Rondani and Targioni-Tozetti of the Italian Entomological Society. He was a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and the Belfast Natural History Society and a Fellow of the (now Royal) Entomological Society of London.
With Hermann Loew (1807–1879), Alexander Haliday was the greatest Dipterist of the 19th century and one of the most renowned British entomologists of the day. His achievements were in four main fields: description, higher taxonomy, synonymy and biology. He erected many major taxa including the order Thysanoptera and the families Mymaridae and Ichneumonidae. Most of Haliday's correspondence with British and continental entomologists is in the library of the Royal Entomological Society, other parts are in the Hope Department Library at the University of Oxford.
Haliday died in Lucca in 1870. “He was our first entomologist. His ideas of classification and tabulation were so logical, his latinity so classical, and his knowledge of whatever he touched so masterly that I fear we shall be long before we look upon his like again” Westwood, Obituary (Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1870: XLVII).
Contacts
Haliday was a very influential figure in entomology as his contacts show. They were:-
Robert Mac Lachlan (1837-1904) Forest Hill, Lewisham London England
Ignaz Rudolph Schiner (1813-1873) Austria Diptera (species recognition)
Hermann Loew (1807-1879) Germany Diptera species recognition, description, higher taxonomy
Francis Walker (1809-1874) England All orders species recognition, description,
John Curtis (1791-1862) England All orders species recognition, description
Carl August Dohrn (1806-1892) Germany
James Charles Dale (1792-1872) England
John Obadiah Westwood (1804-1893) England All orders species recognition, description, higher taxonomy
Camillo Rondani (1807-1879) Italy Diptera
Henry Tibbats Stainton (1822-1892) Mountsfield, Lewisham, England. Microlepidoptera species recognition, description, higher taxonomy
Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808-1883) Germany teacher microlepidoptera long series of generic and higher group revisions.-greatest lepidopterist of the century
John William Douglas (1814-1905) England Microlepidoptera species recognition, description, higher taxonomy
Rasmus Carl Staeger (1800-1875) Denmark Diptera
Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822-1878) England Diptera
Heinrich Frey (1822-1890) Switzerland
Adolpho Targioni-Tarzetti (1823-1902) Italy
Thomas Ansell Marshall (1827-1903) The College Milford Haven later Barnstaple Devon England Hymenoptera.
Arnold Foerster (1810-1884) Aachen Germany Ichneumonidae
Pietro Stefanelli (1834-1919) Italy.
Fernandino Piccioli (1821-1900) Italy
Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813-1900) Belgium Odonata
John Curtis (1791-1862) England All orders.
Maximilian Spinola (1780-1857) Italy All orders but especially Diptera, Coleoptera.
Johann Angelo Ferrari (1806-1876) Italy
Friedrich Kipp (1814-1869)London,England
Andrew Murray (1812-1878) Scotland
Edward Newman (1801-1876) Peckham, London, England Lepidoptera
G.T. Rudd ?of 4 Kelpel? Street Russel Square London.
William Wilson Saunders (1809-1879)Margate, England.
Frederick Smith (1805-1879 (British Museum?) England.
Johann Heinrich Kaltenbach (1807-1876) Germany
Carl Herman Conrad Burmeister (1807-1892) Germany Essig
August Emil Holmgren (1829-1888) Ostergotland Ichneumonidae
George Robert Crotch (1842-1874) England Coleoptera
Carl Gustav Alexander Brischke (1814-1897) Danzig Ichneumonidae
Ernst Gustav Kraatz Coleoptera
Taxa erected by Haliday
Families of Hymenoptera
and with Francis Walker
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