Lionel Jack Dumbleton (1905 – 25 September 1976) was a New Zealand entomologist. He was born in Hampden, New Zealand and was a founding member of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.[1] Dumbleton was one of the entomologists studying insects on the 1949 New Zealand American Fiordland Expedition.[2]
One of his most remarkable biological discoveries was a new genus of caddis-fly-like primitive moths that he described as Agathiphaga[3] and which has been subsequently raised to superfamily level as the second most primitive known living lineage of moths, Agathiphagoidea.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]