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Charles Paul Alexander was an American entomologist born September 25, 1889, in Gloversville, New York. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Entomology (from Greek grc ἔντομος entomos, "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/segmented" hence "insect" and grc -λογία Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Gloversville is a City in Fulton County, New York, that was once the hub of America's glovemaking industry He died on December 3, 1981. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981

Charles Paul Alexander was the son of Emil Alexander and Jane Alexander (née Parker). He entered Cornell University in 1909, earning a Bachelor of Sciences in 1913 and a Ph. A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S D. in 1918. Between 1917 and 1919, he was entomologist at the University of Kansas, then from 1919 to 1922, at the University of Illinois. The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is a public research university with campuses located in Lawrence, Kansas City This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of

He then became professor of entomology at Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst. The University of Massachusetts Amherst (otherwise known as UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, or UMass) is a research and Land-grant university in Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley He studied Diptera, especially in the family Tipulidae. True flies are Insects of the Order Diptera ( Greek: di = two and pteron = wing possessing a single pair of Insects in the family Tipulidae are commonly known as crane flies. He described over 11,000 species and genera of flies, which translates to approximately a species description a day for his entire career.

Works

A synopsis of part of the Neotropical Crane-flies of the subfamily Limnobinae (Tipulidae) 69 p - 4 pl (1913).

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French Wikipedia

Anthony Musgrave (1932). Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, with biographical notes on authors and collectors, Royal Zoological Society of News South Wales (Sydney) : viii + 380.


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