Biography

Muhammad Afzal Hussain Qadri, Pakistani entomologist and philosopher (Badayun, India 07 February 1912 – 06 December 1974)

Introduced a number of new concepts in insect morphology

Described the genera Allocolpocephalum 1939 (Mallophaga) and with Mirza Ziartissus 1966 (Hemiptera)

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Rogas aligharensi. n.sp. (A pink boll-worm parasite). Curr. Sci. 2:209, 1933   

External and internal anatomy of the buffalo louse Haematopinus tuberculatus Burmeister. Publ. Alig. Mus. Univ. Indian Insect Types 1, 1935

Studies on the Mallophaga of North Indian birds. Z. Parasiten. 8(2):226-38, 1935

The male genitalia of Mallophaga infesting North Indian birds. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 4(6):86, 1936 

The life-history and growth of the cockroach (Blatta orientalis Linn.). Bull. Ent. Res. 29:263-75, 1938

On the development of genitalia and their ducts of orthopteroid insects. Trans. R. Ent. Soc. London 90(6):121-75, 1940 

With A. Aziz. Biology, life-history and internal anatomy of Pyrilia perpusilla Walker. Aligarh Mus. Univ. Publ. (Zool. Ser.) 2:1-30, 1950

On the anatomy of the mouth parts of aquatic bugs. Proc. Zool. Soc. Bengal 4:117-36, 1951

The male genitalia of Ectognatha (Thysanura) 1952

Some branchiopods (Anostraca and Conchostraca) of Indo-Pakistan subcontinent with descriptions of new species (1956)

Mechanism of feeding in Hemiptera (1959)

With S.N.H. Naqvi & S.H. Ashrafi. Quantitative determination of acid and alkaline phosphatase in different parts of the alimentary canal of desert locust Schistocerca gregaria Forskal. Pakistan J. Sci. Ind. Res. 10:204-7, 1967

On the digestive system and skeleton-muscular mechanism of the head capsule in the mango-hoppers Idiocrus niueosparsus (Leth.) and I. clypealis (Leth.) (Homoptera, Jassidae). Proc. Zool. Soc. Deng. 2(1):43-5, 1969 

With Z. Khanum. Fresh records of some birds in West Pakistan. Pakistan J. Zool. 4:219-21, 1972 

On the morphology and postembryonic development of the male genitalia and their ducts in Hemiptera (Insecta)

HONORS

Qadria Mahmood 1967 (Hemiptera)

Qadriana Bilqees 1971 (Trematoda)