Thomas Henry Allis

Thomas Henry Allis
Thomas Henry Allis
	An image of Thomas Henry Allis in the archive of the Yorkshire Museum
Born	15 January 1817
Died	1 August 1870 (aged 53); York
Occupation	Entomologist

Thomas Henry Allis (15 January 1817 – 1 August 1870) was a British entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera.

Biography

Allis was the son of Thomas Allis, a comparative anatomist at York. He attended Friend's School.

As an entomologist Allis was a member of the Entomological Society of London and the Entomological Society of Stettin.^[1] He amassed a large collection of lepidoptera, which was donation by his father to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.^[2] The collection contained 19,585 specimens of 1,873 species of butterfly and moth.^[2] The collection is one of the largest biological collections in the Yorkshire Museum.^[3] The collection was used as the basis of an exhibition at Shandy Hall in 2005 titled 'The Winged Skull and 8000 other moths'.^[4] Allis had also donated specimens, in 1854, to the Entomological Society of London.^[5]

A species of moth, Exaeretia allisella, is named after Allis.^[1] He had caught the original specimens near Rotherham and Maryport and sent them to H.T. Stainton for his revision of the genus Exaeretia.^[6]

Select publications

Allis, T.H. 1869. "Note on Xylina conformis", The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 5. 278
Allis, T.H. 1870. "Lythria purpuraria, near York", The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 6. 238.

References

^ ^a ^b "Obituary: Thomas Henry Allis". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (76): 90–91. September 1870.
^ ^a ^b Annual Report of the Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 1870 (Report). Yorkshire Philosophical Society. February 1871.
^ Colin Simms (1968). "A List of Botanical and Zoological Collections at the Yorkshire Museum, York". The Naturalist (904): 85–89.
^ "Exhibitions: The Winged Skull and 8000 Other Moths". The Lawrence Sterne Trust. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
^ "Additions to the Collections". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3: xvi.
^ Stainton, H. T. (1849). "On the Species of Depressaria, a Genus of Tineidae, and the allied Genera Orthotaelia and Exaeretia". The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 5: 151–173.

[EMM-1] "Obituary: Thomas Henry Allis". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (76): 90–91. September 1870.

[YPS-2] Annual Report of the Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 1870 (Report). Yorkshire Philosophical Society. February 1871.

[3] Colin Simms (1968). "A List of Botanical and Zoological Collections at the Yorkshire Museum, York". The Naturalist (904): 85–89.

[4] "Exhibitions: The Winged Skull and 8000 Other Moths". The Lawrence Sterne Trust. Retrieved 24 November 2021.

[5] "Additions to the Collections". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3: xvi.

[6] Stainton, H. T. (1849). "On the Species of Depressaria, a Genus of Tineidae, and the allied Genera Orthotaelia and Exaeretia". The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 5: 151–173.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

Thomas Henry Allis

Biography

Select publications

References

Information related to Thomas Henry Allis

Portal di Ensiklopedia Dunia