Paul D. Brock

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Paul D. Brock (* 1958 ) is a British entomologist . He is a research associate at the Department of Biological Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London and is considered an expert in stick insects (Phasmatodea).

Life

Brock grew up in Slough , Berkshire . He kept his first ghosts at the age of 10. After graduating from school at the age of 16, he applied for a training position in a pest control laboratory . However, a job as a bank clerk preceded him. In 1974, Judith Marshall, a research fellow at the entomological department at the Natural History Museum in London, showed him a collection of ghosts, several of which were previously undetermined. This inspired him to study taxonomy and to write initial scientific descriptions of numerous new ghost taxa. These include over 30 species of ghosts, among them the three South African species Macynia mcgregororum , Clonaria cederbergensis , Clonaria capemontana and the Vietnamese species Dajaca napolovi . He has also described various genera and is co-author of over 70 other taxa .

From 1999 to 2001 he was President of the Amateur Entomologists' Society. He has been treasurer of the Phasmid Study Group since October 2015 .

Since 2016 Brock has been taking part in a project of the Natural History Museum, along with numerous other entomologists, including Axel Hochkirch , in which the conservation status of over 1000 species of invertebrates is to be recorded. These include millipedes and thorns from Madagascar , ghosts and silk spiders from Australia , millipedes, cricket cockroaches and bird butterflies from South Africa, the mantis fauna of India, the endemic invertebrate fauna of the Azores and St. Helena , the endemic spider fauna of Madeira and the endemic earthworm fauna of New Zealand .

Brock published the books Stick Insects of Britain, Europe and the Mediterranean (1991), Catalog of type specimens of Stick- and Leaf-insects in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Insecta: Phasmida) (1998), Stick and Leaf Insects of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore (1999), A Complete Guide to Breeding Stick and Leaf-Insects (2000), Rearing and Studying Stick and Leaf-Insects (2003), Phasmida Species File: Catalog of stick and leaf insects of the world (2005), The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia (2009 with Jack Hasenpusch ) and A Photographic Guide to Insects of Southern Europe & the Mediterranean (2017). His best-known book is The Amazing World of Stick and Leaf-Insects from 1999, which is one of the standard works on the phasmids. In 2007, he and Jack Hasenpusch published a revision of the Australian ghosts, in which 17 new species are described.

Dedication names

According to Paul D. Brock, the phasmid species are Alienobostra brocki Hausleithner , 1987, Asceles brocki Seow-Choen , 2016, Lamachodes brocki Ho , 2018, Megacrania brocki ( Hsinung , 2002) and Planososibia brocki ( Seow-Choen , 2000) and the phasmids genus of Brockphasma Ho , Liu , Bresseel & Constant , named, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul D. Brock: Three new species of South African stick insects (Phasmida) Journal of Orthoptera Research 15 (1), 2006: 37-44
  2. ^ Paul D. Brock: A new species of Dajaca Brunner (Phasmida: Pseudophasmatidae) from Vietnam Journal of Orthoptera Research. 9, Nov. 2000: pp. 1-3
  3. ^ Paul D. Brock, Thies H. Büscher & E. Baker: Phasmida Species File Online . Version 5.0. (accessed on November 28, 2018)
  4. ^ Conservation Status of Invertebrates
  5. ^ Paul D. Brock & Jack Hasenpusch: Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa 1570, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Brock, Paul D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958