Arthur Mills Lea
Australian entomologist
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Arthur Mills Lea's Degrees
- Masters Entomology University of Melbourne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arthur Mills Lea was an Australian entomologist. Lea was born in Surry Hills, New South Wales, the second son of Thomas Lea, from Bristol, England, and his wife Cornelia, née Dumbrell, of Sydney. As a child, Lea was interested in insects and studied them in his spare time. He worked for a chartered accountant firm in Sydney for a while, then became an assistant entomologist for the minister of Agriculture at Sydney in 1891. In 1895 he became government entomologist in Western Australia. Then in 1899 he was appointed government entomologist in Tasmania, where he succeeded in controlling the codling moth.
Arthur Mills Lea's Published Works
Published Works
- The Food of Australian Birds: An Analysis of the Stomach Contents (1935) (153)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera (74)
- Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Part lll (53)
- Australian and tasmanian Coleoptera inhabiting or resorting to the nests of ants, bees, and termites (46)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part V (27)
- On Australian and Tasmanian Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Part II (17)
- Results of the South Australian Museum Expedition to Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks. September and October 1916. (n) Insecta (17)
- Descriptions of Australian Curculionidae, with notes on previously described species. Part VIII (16)
- On Coleoptera, mostly from Queensland (14)
- The Coleoptera of King Island, Bass Strait (12)
- Revision of the Australian Curculionidae belonging to the subfamily Cryptorhynchides (9)
- On a new genus of Stylopidae from Australia (9)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part VIII (8)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part VII (8)
- On Australian Coleoptera. Part VI (7)
- Notes on Australian and Tasmanian Scydmaenidae, with descriptions of new species (7)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part xi (7)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part XVIII (7)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part XVII (6)
- The late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn, B.A., and his entomological work (5)
- Descriptions of new species of Bostrychidae (5)
- Descriptions of some new species of Australian and Tasmanian Chrysomelidae (5)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part X (5)
- Notes on Australian Curculionidae in the Berlin Museum. With descriptions of New Species (1911) (5)
- On Baridiinae (Curculionidae), mostly from New Guinea (1931) (5)
- Australian dung beetles of the Sub-family Coprides (5)
- On Australian Coleoptera. Part IV. Family Chrysomelidae (5)
- On Nepharis and other ants' nest beetles taken by Mr. J.C. Goudie at Birchip (4)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part III (4)
- Notes on Australian Cetoniides; with a list of species and descriptions of some new ones (4)
- New species of Australian Erirhinides (Curculionidae) (4)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part IX (3)
- The Phalacridae (Coleoptera) of Australia and New Guinea (1932) (3)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part xvi (3)
- Notes on the genus Lissotes, with descriptions of new species (3)
- XXXIX.—On some Australian Malacodermidæ and Curculionidæ collected by Mr. G. E. Bryant (1915) (3)
- Notes on AustralianCurculionidae in the Collection of the German Entomological National Museum of Berlin. (Col.) (3)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part IV (3)
- Notes on some remarkable Tasmanian invertebrates (3)
- Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 26. Cryptophagidae, Cucujidae, Malacodermidae, Melandryidae, Mordellidae, Rhipidophoridae and Oedemeridae (3)
- List of the described Coleoptera ofTasmania. (3)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part xix (2)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part VI (2)
- Descriptions of two new blind weevils from Western Australia and Tasmania (2)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part xiii (2)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part xii (2)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part xv (2)
- Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part xiv (1)
- Notes on Small Flies of Genus Simulium. (1)
- The Australian species of Aulacophora (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) (1)
- XXp The Blind Coleoptera of Australia and Tasmaniap Arthur Mp Leac FpEpSpc Government Entomologistc Tasmania (0)
- Notes to accompany figures of Boisduval's types of six species of Australian Curculionidae, based upon observations and sketches by M. P. Lesne (0)
- On Australian Coleopterap Part IVp Family Chrysomelidae (0)
- Australian and Tasmanian Pselaphidae (0)
- On some Pselaphidae of the Howitt collection (0)
- On a new Rhytiphora in the National Museum, Melbourne (0)
- Descriptions of new species of Lomaptera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetonides) (0)
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