Lionel Jack Dumbleton

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Lionel Jack Dumbleton (1905 – 25 September 1976) was a New Zealand entomologist. He was born in Hampden, New Zealand and was a founding member of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.[1] Dumbleton was one of the entomologists studying insects on the 1949 New Zealand American Fiordland Expedition.[2]

One of his most remarkable biological discoveries was a new genus of caddis-fly-like primitive moths that he described as Agathiphaga[3] and which has been subsequently raised to superfamily level as the second most primitive known living lineage of moths, Agathiphagoidea.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

In 1998 a new genus of hepialid moths was named Dumbletonius in his honour, and Hort Research has a building in Auckland named after him.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

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