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'''Evelyn Cecil Muschamp d'Assis Fonseca''' (1899–1993) was a British [[dipterist]] of Brazilian birth.<ref>British census 1921, British 1939 register</ref> His birth-place is given as Peri-peri.<ref>note: many places in Brazil bear this name; from other entries on this census page, it is likely that this one is near Rio de Janeiro</ref>  His mother, along with her other children, had come to Britain by 1911, and set up house in Bristol.<ref>1911 census of England & Wales.</ref> Around 1920 he became a student of engineering at the University of Bristol, and then developed a career, also in Bristol, as an aeronautical engineer and designer, continuing to reside in Bristol up to his death in 1993.<ref>GRO register of deaths Bristol 3011D 285</ref> How he developed an interest in entomology is at present not known.

In 1932 he married Muriel Cressy Tucker (1906–2002).<ref>GRO register of marriages Mar 1932 Deptford 1d 1298</ref><ref>GRO register of births Sep 1906 Muriel Cressy Tucker Penzance 5c 201</ref><ref>GRO register of deaths Muriel Cressy D'Assis-Fonseca 2002(Q1) Bristol 3011A A40C 215</ref> They had two children.<ref>1939 register</ref>

He was responsible for formally naming a number of [[fly]] species, including:

* ''[[Dolichopus subpennatus]]''
* ''[[Fannia collini]]''
* ''[[Fannia pseudonorvegica]]''
* ''[[Fannia subatripes]]''
* ''[[Alliopsis similaris]]''
* ''[[Heterostylodes caledonicus]]''

He authored two volumes in the [[Royal Entomological Society of London]]'s ''[[Royal Entomological Society Handbooks|Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects]]'' series:

* Handbooks for the Ident. of British Insects. Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata section (b) Muscidae (1968)
* Handbooks for the Ident. of British Insects. Brachycera : Dolichopodidae (1978)

His extensive Diptera collection is now in the [[Hope Entomological Collections]] of the [[Oxford University Museum of Natural History]].

[[Botanophila fonsecai|Fonseca's seed fly]], the rarest endemic insect in the UK, is named after Fonseca, who described the type specimen.

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