Claude Morley
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Claude Morley was an English
antiquary and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera
and Diptera
.
Morley was born in Blackheath and educated at Beccles
, King's School, Peterborough
and Epsom College
. After living on the Isle of Wight in his father's house at Cowes
, he moved in 1892 to Ipswich where worked with John E. Taylor, then Curator of the Ipswich museum.
He married in 1904,living in Monk Soham until his death. He had no radio, telephone, or electricity in his house.E.A. Elliott was a close friend as was Arthur Chitty.
Morley worked first on Coleoptera, then Hemiptera
and then Ichneumonidae. His magnum opus was the five volume Ichneumons of Great Britain (1903-1914).
Morley's collection of mainly Suffolk material covering the period 1898-1951 is in Ipswich Museum.It occupies c.260 drawers. There are Cerambycids bearing his name in the Kauffmann collection at Manchester.
Morley was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London 1896.
to the alary system of Jurine.Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1909: 439-447, figs. (1909)
Coleoptera
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
antiquary and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. There are over 130,000 recognized species, with many more remaining to be described. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν : membrane and...
and Diptera
Diptera
Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...
.
Morley was born in Blackheath and educated at Beccles
Beccles
Beccles is a market town and civil parish in the Waveney District of the English county of Suffolk. The town is shown on the milestone as from London via the A145 Blythburgh and A12 road, northeast of London as the crow flies, southeast of Norwich, and north northeast of the county town of...
, King's School, Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of in June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. Situated north of London, the city stands on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea...
and Epsom College
Epsom College
Epsom College is an independent co-educational public school in Epsom, Surrey, England, for pupils aged 13 to 18. Founded in 1853 to provide support for poor members of the medical profession such as pensioners and orphans , Epsom's long-standing association with medicine was estimated in 1980 as...
. After living on the Isle of Wight in his father's house at Cowes
Cowes
Cowes is an English seaport town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. Cowes is located on the west bank of the estuary of the River Medina facing the smaller town of East Cowes on the east Bank...
, he moved in 1892 to Ipswich where worked with John E. Taylor, then Curator of the Ipswich museum.
He married in 1904,living in Monk Soham until his death. He had no radio, telephone, or electricity in his house.E.A. Elliott was a close friend as was Arthur Chitty.
Morley worked first on Coleoptera, then Hemiptera
Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...
and then Ichneumonidae. His magnum opus was the five volume Ichneumons of Great Britain (1903-1914).
Morley's collection of mainly Suffolk material covering the period 1898-1951 is in Ipswich Museum.It occupies c.260 drawers. There are Cerambycids bearing his name in the Kauffmann collection at Manchester.
Morley was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London 1896.
Works
- On the Ichneumonidous Group Tryphonides schizodonti with descriptions of new species (1905)
- A description of the superior wing of the Hymenoptera,with a view to giving a simpler and more certain nomenclature
to the alary system of Jurine.Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1909: 439-447, figs. (1909)
- Catalogue of British Hymenoptera of the family Chalcididae , 74pp. Publisher? (1910).
- A revision of the Ichneumonidae based on the coll. in the British Museum Publisher? (1912-1914).
- (1908-1911) Ichneumonologia Britannica (4 Volumes) London
- On in some South African Ichneumonidae the collection of the South African Museum.Annals of the South African Museum,17:191-229. (1917)
- Fauna of British India Hymenoptera Vol. 3. Ichneumones Deltoidei (1913)
- The Percy Sladen trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean (Seychelles) in 1905. 12.Ichneumonidae (1912)
Coleoptera
- The Coleoptera of Suffolk, 1899 Keys, Plymouth Supplement, 1915. The work listed 1783 species and the supplement 237. He also wrote many articles in the Entomologist's monthly magaxzine, Entomologist's Recordand Journal of variation, and other periodicals, and he was on the editorial staff of the Entomologist from 1909.