Charles Henry Tyler Townsend, US-born Brazilian entomologist (Oberlin, Ohio State 05 December 1863 – Itaquaquecetuba, São Paulo State 17 March 1944)

Authored about 650 papers

Applied Entomology

First to identify the insect vector of Peruvian warts and Oroya fever (Lutzomyia verracarum)

La titira es la transmisora de la verruga. La Cronica Medica 29:640-3, 1913

A Phlebotomus the practically certain carrier of verruga. Science 38:194-5, 1913

The history, etiology and transmission of verruga peruana, with an outline of the asexual cycle of its causative organism (1917)

Found an effective biological control for the cotton square-weevel (1912)

Cyanogas, calcium cyanide for the control of Atta sexdens L. in Brazil. J. Econ. Entomol. 18(6):840-2, 1925

Others

A new application of taxonomic principles. Ann. Entomol. Soc. America 6(2):226-32, 1913

A simple and convenient system of keeping general entomological records. J. Econ. Entomol. 4(2):249-52, 1911

Papers in top journals

Proposals for new basic physical postulates. Nature 152(3854):308, 1943

On the reproductive and host habits of Cuterebra and Dermatobia. Science 42:253-5, 1915

The relation between lizards and Phlebotomus verrucarum as indicating reservoirs of verruga. Science 40:212-4, 1914

On the identity of verruga and Carrión disease. Science 39:99-100, 1914

On the history of cottons and cotton weevils. Science 37:638-9, 1913

Genotypes are the species upon which genera are based. Science 34:116-8, 1911

On muscoid and specially tachinid synonymy. Science 33:860-3, 1911

Antarctica as a former land connection between the continents. Science 32:759-60, 1910

The trinomial question in nomenclature. Science 21(525):105, 1893

On biological nomenclature. Science 20:164, 1892

The systematic position of the Diptera. Science 19:320, 1892

Taxonomy

Published the monumental work Manual of Myiology (1934-42) comprising 3,760 pages and 94 plates in 12 parts about taxonomy and systematics of Diptera

DESCRIBED NEW ARTHROPODA TAXA

1,491 genera (about 1,000 are considered valid)

1, 574 valid species of Diptera

New species of ticks, Hemiptera, Coleoptera and Neuroptera

Fossil

Five new genera of fossil Ostreomuscaria (Diptera). Ent. News 49:166-7, 1938

Some new Muscoid genera, ancient and recent. Insec. Inscit. Menst. 9:132-4, 1921

Lithohypoderma, a new fossil genus of oestrids Insec. Inscit. Menst. 4(10-2):128-30, 1917

HONORS (Diptera)

Townsendia Williston 1895

Townsendmyia Prado & Fonseca 1932

Townsendisca Souza Lopes 1973