Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson
Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson
Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson, (September 6, 1840 in Tipperary, Ireland – September 15, 1890 in Calcutta, India) was an Irish entomologist. Atkinson was a lawyer specialising in Indian Law on which he wrote several books. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862. He also published a Gazetteer of Northwestern India. He died from Bright's disease.
Works
- 1875 Descriptive and Historical Account of the Aligarh District, Oxford University Press
- 1885. Notes on Indian Rhynchota; Heteroptera. No. 4. J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 57: 118-184
- 1886. Notes on Indian Rhynchota; Heteroptera. No. 5. J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 58: 20-109
- 1890. Catalogue of the Insecta. Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Family Capsidae. J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (Nat. Sci. Suppl.)58: 25-200
Collections
Heteroptera collection Natural History Museum BMNH and Dresden (via Staudinger & Otto Bang-Haas).
Sources
Poggi and Conci (1996) for biographical information.
External links
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