Doncaster, J.P. — Francis Walker's Aphids
BM(NH) viii, 165, 8 plates, 11 text figs. . HB. Fine.. The work re-examines the surviving aphid specimens and species described by the prolific nineteenth-century entomologist Francis Walker who worked in the British Museum, 1840-1860. The preface states ‘Walker’s name has come to be a by-word amongst taxonomists for his inaccuracy and superficiality…..Nevertheless, as Doncaster points out, Walker made a significant and important advance in aphidolological knowledge’. This work resolves numerous problems of identification and synonymy..
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