Lionel Jack Dumbleton

New Zealand entomologist

Lionel Jack Dumbleton (1905 – 25 September 1976) was a New Zealand entomologist. He was born in Hampden, New Zealand and was a founding member of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.^[1] Dumbleton was one of the entomologists studying insects on the 1949 New Zealand American Fiordland Expedition.^[2]

One of his most remarkable biological discoveries was a new genus of caddis-fly-like primitive moths that he described as Agathiphaga^[3] and which has been subsequently raised to superfamily level as the second most primitive known living lineage of moths, Agathiphagoidea.^{[citation needed]}

In 1998 a new genus of hepialid moths was named Dumbletonius in his honour, and Hort Research has a building in Auckland named after him.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Lowe, A. D.; Ramsay, G. W. (4 January 1977). "Lionel Jack Dumbleton: 1905-1976". New Zealand Entomologist. 6 (3): 208–212. doi:10.1080/00779962.1977.9722251 – via CrossRef.
^ Alick Lindsay Poole, ed. (1951). "Preliminary reports of The New Zealand - American Fiordland Expedition". Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 103. Wellington: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 1–99. ISSN 0077-961X. Wikidata Q125475906.
^ Dumbleton, L (1952). "A new genus of seed-infesting micropterygid moths". Pacific Science. 6: 17–29.