Daniel William Coquillett

Daniel William Coquillett
Coquillett c. 1896
Born(1856-01-23)January 23, 1856
Pleasant Valley, Illinois, United States
DiedJuly 7, 1911(1911-07-07) (aged 55)
Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEntomology
Known forWrote a revision of the dipterous family Therevidae

Daniel William Coquillett (23 January 1856 – 7 July 1911) was an American entomologist who specialised in flies.[1] He wrote a revision of the dipterous family Therevidae[2] and many other scientific papers in which he described many new species and genera of flies. Coquillett was also the first to attempt fumigation with hydrocyanic acid as a means for controlling citrus scale insects. He experimented in the Wolfskill orange groves where he was supported by the foreman and later quarantine entomologist Alexander Craw in 1888–89.[3]

  1. ^ Carpenter, M.M. 1945. Bibliography of biographies of entomologists. The American Midland Naturalist 33: 1–116.
  2. ^ Revision of the dipterous family Therevidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 2(3): 97–101 (1894)
  3. ^ Coquillett, D.W. (1888). Report on the gas treatment for scale-insects. Commissioner of Agriculture, Washington. p. 123.