Frank Fortescue Laidlaw (1876–1963) was a British biologist, working particularly in the fields of entomology, herpetology, and malacology.[1]
Laidlaw named a number of species of snails, including the land snail genus Colparion Earlier in his career he studied dragonflies, the Odonata, identifying a number of new species, and being himself recorded in names such as Epiophlebia laidlawi Tillyard, 1921 and Burmagomphus laidlawi Fraser, 1924. He described two new species of snakes: Hebius inas and Kolpophis annandalei.[2]