Francis Walker (entomologist)

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Francis Walker.

Francis Walker (July 31, 1809 - October 5, 1874) was an English entomologist.

Walker was employed by the British Museum between 1844 and 1873. He described a great number of new insects, but unfortunately he was, sometimes, a careless taxonomist, often describing the same species more than once under different specific names. In this respect, however, he was no worse than many continental entomologists. He was born in Southgate, England on 1 July 1809 and died at Wanstead, England October 5 1874. Walker added an immense amount of material to the collections of the British Museum and wrote 87 scientific papers. He is best known for his catalogues of Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Homoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. Collaborating with Alexander Henry Haliday, a life-long friend, he was one of the first students of the Chalcidoidea. He was also a close friend of John Curtis. Walker was a Fellow of the Entomological Society and was elected an Honorary Member of the California Academy of Sciences in 1883. Walker's specimens are in the Natural History Museum, London, Hope Department of Entomology , University of Oxford, The National Museum of Ireland, Dublin and the School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt.

Contents

1 Major Works
2 Publication list
3 Taxa erected by Walker
4 External links
5 Reference

Major Works

Monographium Chalciditum. Hypolitus Balliére, 219, Regent Street, London, J. B. Balliére, 13, Rue d' École de Medecine, Paris, J. and G. Weigel, Leipsig (Leipzig, Germany)(1839)
Insecta Brittanica Diptera 3 vols. London (1851-1856)

Publication list

1833. Monographia chalcidum (continued from page 384). Ent Mag 1(5): 455-466.
1834. Monographia chalciditum (continued from p. 39). Ent Mag 2(2): 148-179.
1834. Monographia chalciditum (continued from p. 309). Ent Mag 2(4): 340-369.
1835. Characters of some undescribed New Holland Diptera. Ent Mag 2(5): 468-473.
1835. Monographia chalciditum (continued from p. 369). Ent Mag 2(5): 476-502.
1835. Monographia chalciditum (continued from Vol. II., page 502.). Ent Mag 3(1): 94-97.
1836. Monographia chalciditum (continued). Ent Mag 3(5): 465-496.
1838. Descriptions of British chalcidites. Ann Mag Nat Hist (1)1(4): 307-312.
1838. Descriptions of British chalcidites. [continuation from p. 312] Ann Mag Nat Hist (1)1(5): 381-387.
1839. Monographia Chalciditum. Volume 1. Balliere, London. 333 pp.
1839. Monographia Chalciditum. Volume 2. Balliere, London. 100 pp.
1843. Description des Chalcidites trouv饳 au bluff de Saint-Jean, dans la Floride orientale; par MM. E. Doubleday et R. Forster. Premier m魯ire. Ann Soc Ent Fr (2)1: 145-162.
1846. Characters of some undescribed species of chalcidites. (Continued from p. 115). Ann Mag Nat Hist (1)17(111): 177-185.
1846. Part I--Chalcidites. Pp. 1-100 In: List of the specimens of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Printed by order of the Trustees, London. vi + 237 pp.
1849. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. Printed by order of the Trustees [British Museum], London. 231-484 pp.
1849. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. Printed by order of the Trustees [British Museum], London. 485-687 pp.
1849. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. Printed by order of the Trustees [British Museum], London. 689-1172 pp.
1850. Descriptions of aphides. (Continued fom vol. v. p. 395). Ann Mag Nat Hist (2)6(31): 41-48.
1851. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. British Museum, London. 1188 pp.
1852. Diptera. Part I. Pp. 1-75 In: Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed species in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. I. John Van Voorst, London. 474 pp.
1852. Diptera. Part IV. Pp. 253-414 In: Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed species in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. I. John Van Voorst, London. 474 pp.
1852. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. British Museum, London. 1188 pp.
1853. Catalogue of the specimens of neuropterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. - Sialides-Nemopterides. British Museum, London. 193-476 pp.
1853. Catalogue of the specimens of neuropterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. - (Termitidae-Ephemeridae). British Museum, London. 477-585 pp.
1855. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part V. Lepidoptera Heterocera. British Museum (Natural History), London. 977-1257 pp.
1856. Diptera. Part V. Pp. 415-474 In: Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed species in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. I. John Van Voorst, London. 474 pp.
1856. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part X.--Noctuidae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 253-491 pp.
1856. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IX.--Noctuidae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-252 pp.
1857. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. J Proc Linn Soc Lond Zool 1: 4-39.
1857. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. J Proc Linn Soc Lond Zool 1: 105-136.
1857. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XIII.--Noctuidae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 983-1236 pp.
1858. Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects. Ann Mag Nat Hist (3)2(9): 202-209.
1858. Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects. (Continued from p. 209). Ann Mag Nat Hist (3)2(10): 280-286.
1858. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XIV.--Noctuidae. British Museum (Natural History), London. .
1858. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XV.--Noctuidae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1521-1888 pp.
1858. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XVI.--Deltoides. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-253 pp.
1858. Characters of undescribed Diptera in the collection of W.W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., &c. Trans Ent Soc Lond (2)4(6): 190-235.
1859. Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects. (Continued from p. 56). Ann Mag Nat Hist (3)3(16): 258-265.
1859. Catalogue of dipterous insects collected in the Aru Islands by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. J Proc Linn Soc Lond Zool 3: 77-131.
1859. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Makessar in Celebes by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. J Proc Linn Soc Lond Zool 4: 90-172.
1859. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XVII.--Pyralides. British Museum (Natural History), London. 255-508 pp.
1859. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XIX.--Pyralides. British Museum (Natural History), London. 799-1036 pp.
1861. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Amboyna by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. J Proc Linn Soc Lond Zool 5: 144-168.
1861. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXII.--Geometrites (continued). British Museum (Natural History), London. 499-755.
1861. List of the specimens of Lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XVIII.--Geometrites. British Museum (Natural History), London. 757-1020 pp.
1862. Catalogue of the heterocerous lepidopterous insects collected at Sarawak, in Borneo, by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. (Continued from page 145). J Proc Linn Soc Lond Zool 6: 171-198.
1863. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXVII. Crambites & Tortricites. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-286 pp.
1863. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXVIII. Tortricites & Tineites. British Museum (Natural History), London. 287-561 pp.
1864. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXIX. Tineites. British Museum (Natural History), London. 533-835 pp.
1864. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXX. Tineites. British Museum (Natural History), London. 837-1096 pp.
1865. Descriptions of new species of the dipterous insects of New Guinea. J Linn Soc Lond Zool 8: 102-130.
1865. Descriptions of new species of the dipterous insects of New Guinea. J Proc Linn Soc Lond Zool 8: 102-130.
1865. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXXII. Supplement.--Part 2. British Museum (Natural History), London. 323-706 pp.
1866. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIV. Supplement.--Part 4. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1121-1533 pp.
1866. Appendix. A list of mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, fishes, shells, annelides, and Diatomaceae, collected by myself in British Columbia and Vancouver Island, with notes on their habits. [List of Coleoptera]. Pp. 309-334 In: J.K. Lord. The naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Richard Bentley, London. 375 pp.
1868. Catalogue of the specimens of Blattariae in the collection of the British Museum. Printed for the Trustees of the British Museum, London. 239 pp.
1869. Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera saltatoria and supplement to the Blattariae in the collection of the British Museum [Part I.] British Museum, London. 1-224 pp.
1869. Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera saltatoria in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. [Locustidae (contd.).] British Museum, London. 225-423 pp.
1870. Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera saltatoria in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. [Locustidae (contd.), Acrididae.] British Museum, London. 425-604 pp.
1871. Notes on Chalcidiae. Part I. Eurytomidae. E.W. Janson, London. 1-17 pp.
1872. Catalogue of the specimens of heteropterous Hemiptera in the collection of the British Museum. 5. Printed for the Trustees of the British Museum, London. 1-202 pp.

Taxa erected by Walker

Families of Hymenoptera

These families, although published under Walker's name were almost certainly the result of a collaboration with Alexander Henry Haliday.

External links

[Plates from Insecta Brittanica Diptera]

Reference

The Natural History Museum at South Kensington - William T. Stearn ISBN 0434736007

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