Frederick Smith

Frederick Smith

Frederick Smith (1805–1879), British entomologist specialised in Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. Father of Edgar Albert Smith.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

  • 64 taxon names authored by Frederick Smith

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1847

  • 1847. Description of British bees belonging to the genus Andrena of Fabricius. The Zoologist 5: 1662–1670, 1732–1753, 1916–1931.

1851

  • 1851. Descriptions of some new species of exotic Hymenoptera in the British Museum and other collections. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2) 7: 28–33. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1851. Descriptions of some new species of British Hymenoptera. The Zoologist: a Popular Miscellany of Natural History 9 (Appendix): cxxv-cxxvii. PDF
  • 1851. List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. – Hymenoptera Aculeata. London: Printed by order of the Trustees. 134 pp.
  • 1851. Notes on the habits of Australian Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1: 179–181. BHL

1852

  • 1852. Descriptions of some new and apparently undescribed Species of Hymenopterous Insects from North China, collected by Robert Fortune, Esq. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 7 (ser.2, 2): 33–44. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1852. Descriptions of some hymenopterous insects captured in India, with notes on their oeconomy, by Ezra T. Downes, Esq., who presented them to the Honourable the East India Company. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (ser.2) 9: 44–50.

1853

  • 1853. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 197 pp.
  • 1853. Monograph of the genus Cryptocerus, belonging to the group Cryptoceridae – family Myrmicidae – division Hymenoptera Heterogyna. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, (2) 2: 213–228. BHL

1854

  • 1854. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 2: 199–465. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.20999 BHL. Reference page. 

1855

1856

  • 1856. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. Sphegidae, Larridae, and Crabronidae. Taylor and Francis, London. pp. 207-497. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1856. Description of a most extraordinary aculeate hymenopterous insect recently received from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 2 4: 31. BHL

1857

  • 1857. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp. BHL
  • 1857. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2: 42–88. Reference page. 
  • 1857. Notes on aculeate Hymenoptera, with some observations on their economy. Entomol. Ann., 1858: 34–46.

1858

1859

  • 1859. Catalogue of Hymenopterous insects in the collections of the British Museum. Part VII. Dorylidae and Thynnidae. London. 76 pp.
  • 1859. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the Islands of Aru and Key. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 3: 132–178.
  • 1859. Catalogue of British fossorial Hymenoptera, Formicidae, and Vespidae, in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 236 pp.

1860

1861

1862

1863

1865

  • 1865. Descriptions of some new species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the families Thynnidae, Masaridae, and Apidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 3 2: 389–399. BHL
  • 1865. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects from the Islands of Sumatra, Sula, Gilolo, Salwatty, and New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 8: 61–94.
  • 1865. Notes on British Formicidae. Entomologists Monthly Magazine, 2: 28–30.
  • 1865. Notes on Hymenoptera. The Entomologist's Annual, 1866: 122–137.
  • 1865. Notes on Hymenoptera. The Entomologist's Annual, 1865: 81–96.
  • 1865. Observations on the genus Dorylus, and upon a new genus of Apidae. Entomologists Monthly Magazine, 2: 3–5.

1867

1868

1869

1871

  • 1871. Notes on various species of Apidae, Formicidae, Fossores, and Vespidae; with observation on some parasites of the latter. The Entomologist's Annual, 1871: 55–70.
  • 1871. A catalogue of the aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 11: 285–415.

1873

  • 1873. Descriptions of aculeate Hymenoptera of Japan, collected by Mr. George Lewis at Nagasaki and Hiogo. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1873: 181–206. BHL
  • 1873. Descriptions of new species of fossorial Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) 12: 49–59 (July), 99–108 (Aug.). BHL
  • 1873. Descriptions of new species of fossorial Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum, and of a species of the rare genus Iswara, belonging to the Family Dorylidae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 12: 253–260. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1873. Descriptions of new species of fossorial Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum (contd.). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 12: 291–300. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1873. Descriptions of new species of fossorial Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum (continued). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 12: 402–415. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1873. Hymenoptera Aculeata, pp. 456–463, pls. 13–15 in J.L. Brenchley. Jottings during the cruise of the H.M.S. Curaçoa among the South Sea islands in 1865, with numerous illustrations and natural history notices. Longmans, Green, and Co., London. xxviii + 487 pp., 50 pls., 1 map. Access

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1875

1876

1877

1878

  • 1878. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects from New Zealand, collected by Prof. Hutton, at Otago. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 26: 1–7. BHL
  • 1878. Hymenoptera. — In: Scientific results of the second Yarkand Mission, based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka. By order of the Government of India. 1878–91. pp. 1–22. Calcutta (government printing).

1879

  • 1879. Descriptions of new species of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), pp. 21 + 240. London.
  • 1879. Descriptions of new species of aculeate Hymenoptera collected by the Rev. Thos. Blackburn in the Sandwich Islands. ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 14: 674–685.