Frederick Wallace Edwards

Frederick Wallace Edwards FRS[1] (28 November 1888 in Fletton, Peterborough – 15 November 1940 in London), was an English entomologist. Edwards was known in the field of entomology for his work on Diptera.

F. W. Edwards and Mrs. Edwards at the International Congress of Entomology in Madrid, 1935

Edwards worked in the British Museum (Natural History) which contains his collections made on his expeditions to Norway and Sweden (1923), Switzerland and Austria (1925), Argentina and Chile (1926/27), with Raymond Corbett Shannon, Corsica and USA (1928), the Baltic (1933), Kenya and Uganda (1934), with Ernest Gibbins, and the Pyrenees (1935).

Among the unusual insects that he described was the flightless marine midge Pontomyia. The mosquito genus Fredwardsius is named to honor his work establishing the generic and subgeneric framework which forms the basis for modern day systematics of the Culicidae of the world.

Works

For a partial list of works see the references in Sabrosky's Family Group Names in Diptera

References
  1. Imms, A. D. (1941). "Frederick Wallace Edwards. 1888-1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 735–745. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0031.

Bibliography
  • Alexander, C. P. 1941 [Edwards, F. W.] Can. Ent. 73 94-95
  • Anonym 1941: [Edwards, F. W.] Indian J. Ent. 3 149
  • Blair, K. 1941: [Edwards, F. W.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 77 20
  • Evenhuis, N. L. 1997: Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum (1758-1930). Volume 1 (A-K); Volume 2 (L-Z). - Leiden, Backhuys Publishers 1; 2 VII+1-426; 427-871 1: 220-221, Portr.+Schr.verz.
  • Imms, A. D. 1941: [Edwards, F. W.] Obit. Notices fellows Roy. Soc. London 3 735-745, Portr.
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