H. Radclyffe Roberts
H. Radclyffe Roberts | |
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Portrait of Roberts accompanying Ruth Patrick's obituary of him | |
| Born | March 26, 1906 |
| Died | June 11, 1982 (aged 76) |
| Known for | Mosquito Atlas (with E.S. Ross) |
| Spouse |
Enid Hazel Warden Roberts
(m. 1933–1982) |
| Children | 3 |
| Academic background | |
| Education |
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| Thesis | A Comparative Study of the Subfamilies of the Acrididae (Orthoptera) Primarily on the Basis of Their Phallic Structures (1941) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Entomology |
| Sub-discipline | Acridology |
| Institutions | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |
Howard Radclyffe Roberts Jr. (March 26, 1906 – June 11, 1982) was an American entomologist known for his work on grasshoppers. His 1941 University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. dissertation was an early work highlighting the role phallic structures could play in grasshopper taxonomy. While serving in World War II, he and Edward Shearman Ross cowrote The Mosquito Atlas, used by the armed forces to identify malaria-transmitting mosquitos. Roberts worked for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP), serving as its managing director from 1947 to 1972. He described dozens of grasshopper species from North and South America, and also is the eponym of several taxa named in his honor.