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Charles Paul Alexander

(25 Sep) 1889 - 1981 (3 Dec)




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B.S.: 1913; Ph.D.: 1918



Charles Paul Alexander was a Cornell-educated entomologist, studying under John Henry Comstock, James G. Needham and other outstanding faculty. His focus was the family Tipulidae, the crane flies, and Alexander wrote 25 papers on the group while still an undergraduate. Alexander took a position as Curator of the Snow Entomological Collection at the University of Kansas while completing his Ph.D. In 1922, he became a Professor of Entomology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and spent the rest of his career there. Alexander made many collecting trips in the United States and Canada and by 1976 had authored 1000 papers.


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1913. Alexander, Charles Paul. A synopsis of part of the Neotropical crane-flies of the subfamily Limnobinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum (): .Google Scholar
1919. Alexander, Charles Paul. The crane-flies of New York. (): .Google Scholar
1925. Alexander, Charles Paul. Crane flies from the Maritime Province of Siberia. Proceedings of the United States National Museum (): .Google Scholar
1929. Alexander, Charles Paul. A revision of the American two-winged flies of the psychodid subfamily Bruchomyinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum (): .Google Scholar
1955. Alexander, Charles Paul. The crane flies of Alaska and the Canadian Northwest (Tipulidae, Diptera); the genus Erioptera Meigen. (): .Google Scholar


1970. Alexander, Charles Paul. Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica: The Crane Flies. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (): .Google Scholar