Lionel Jack Dumbleton
Deceased Person
1905 – 1976
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Who was Lionel Jack Dumbleton?
Lionel Jack Dumbleton was a New Zealand entomologist. He was born in Hampden, New Zealand and was a founding member of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.
One of his most remarkable biological discoveries was a new genus of caddis-fly-like primitive moths that he described as Agathiphaga and which has been subsequently raised to superfamily level as the second most primitive known living lineage of moths, Agathiphagoidea.
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.
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