Anastasio de Jesus Alfaro Gonzalez, Costa Rican naturalist, ethnologist and archaeologist (Alajuela 16 February 1865 – San José de Costa Rica 19 January 1951)

Collected birds, insects, plants and  minerals

Described valid avian species Aegolius ridgwayi 1905 and its subspecies Aegolius ridgwayi ridgwayi 1905 

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Investigaciones Cientificas (1935)

El delfín de Corubicí (1964)

Antiguedades de Costa Rica (1896)

Arqueologia criminal americana (1906)

Mamiferos de Costa Rica (1897)

Etnologia Centro-americana (1893) with Manuel María Peralta

Orquídeas

MEMBERSHIP/HONOURS

Correspondant Member, American Ornithological Union (1888) & Geographic Society of Nurenberg (1924)

Life Member, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1932)

First Class of Royal Order of Vasa, Sweden (1895) 

GENERA NAMED AFTER HIM

Alfaroa Standley (Juglandaceae)

Alfaropsis Iljinskaya 1993 (Juglandaceae) 

Alfaro Meek 1912 (Pisces)