David Allan Young

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David Allan Young Junior (born May 26, 1915 in Wilkinsburg , Pennsylvania , † June 8, 1991 in Louisville , Kentucky ) was an American entomologist . His research focus was the cicadas and dwarf cicadas .

Life

Young was the son of business traveler David Allan Young Sr. and his wife Mabel Claire Young, née Johnston. After attending elementary school and high school in western Pennsylvania, he graduated from high school in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1939 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in science from the University of Louisville . He taught general science at the Louisville Public School System from 1939 to 1941 and worked in the summers of those years and in the fall of 1941 on his Masters of Science degree in entomology from Cornell University , where he graduated in 1942. In January 1942 he joined the US armed forces , which he left in October 1945 with the rank of First Lieutenant. He then took up a teaching position at the biological department of the University of Louisville until 1948. He then studied entomology at the University of Kansas , where he received his Ph.D. in 1950 under the direction of Raymond Hill Beamer (1889–1957). received his doctorate.

From 1950 through late 1957, Young was an insect taxonomist in the Department of Insect Identification and Foreign Parasite Quarantine at the United States National Museum in Washington, DC . In 1957, he accepted a position as associate professor at North Carolina State University (NCSU), where he continued his systematic research on cicadas, administered the university's insect collection and lectured on the courses on insect diversity, insect morphology, systematic entomology and taxonomy principles was.

After a three-month excursion through Peru in 1960 and purchasing additional collections, Young added thousands to the North Carolina State University's insect collection. In 1961 he was appointed professor. From 1962 to 1963 he stayed in Europe, where he studied the type specimens in entomological collections from Germany , Austria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland , Denmark , Sweden , France and England . After his official resignation from the NCSU in 1980, Young continued to work as a professor emeritus until he had completed his studies on the subfamily Cicadellinae in 1986 .

Young's publications on the global fauna of the cicadas contain descriptions of 807 new species, seven new subspecies, 207 new genera, six new subgenera, and the first description of the tribe of Alebrini in 1957. One of his most famous works is the Taxonomic Study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae ) , which appeared in three parts in the years 1968, 1977 and 1986 and which covers 292 dwarf leafhopper genera from all parts of the world on 2061 pages. The entomologist James P. Cramer described the second part in a book review "as the most outstanding and comprehensive single work that has ever been created on a large part of the Cicadellidae." Together with Victoria Wade he continued after the death of Zeno Payne Metcalf in 1956 General Catalog of the Homoptera continued.

Young was a member of the Washington Academy of Science , the Entomological Society of America , the Entomological Society of Washington , the North Carolina Entomological Society, the Society of Systematic Zoology , Sigma Xi , the Sociedad Entomológica Agrícola del Perú, and the Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil.

Young died in June 1991 of complications from an aneurysm .

Honors and Dedication Names

In 1976, Young received the North Carolina Entomological Society's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Entomology. At the 8th International Auchenorrhyncha Congress, held in Delphi , Greece , in August 1993 , a commemorative symposium was held in memory of Young's scientific merits, at which he was recognized as "one of the greatest cicada researchers in the history of entomology". In 2004 the species Neolaccogrypota youngi from Peru was named in his honor.

Fonts (selection)

  • Young DA Jr. 1957. The leafhopper tribe Alebrini (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Proceedings of the United States National Museum 107: 127-277
  • Young DA 1968. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 1. Proconiini. Bull. US Nat. Mus. 261: 1-287.
  • Young DA 1977. Taxonomic Study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 2. New World Cicadellini and the Genus Cicadella. North Carolina Agric. Exp. Sta. Tech. Bull. 239: 1-1135.
  • Young DA 1986. Taxonomic Study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae), Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. North Carolina Agric. Res. Ser. Tech. Bull. 281: 1-639.

literature

  • Deitz, LL 1991. David Allan Young, Jr. (1915-1991). American Entomologist 37 (4): 251. [Obituary]
  • Deitz, LL 1992. David Allan Young, Jr. (1915-1991). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 94 (3): 390-395. [Obituary with annotated chronological bibliography]

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JP Kramer Book Review In: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 80, 1978, p. 456
personal data
SURNAME Young, David Allan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, David Allan Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilkinsburg , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1991
Place of death Louisville , Kentucky