Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr.

Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr. (1879–1965), U.S. entomologist and ornithologist. Carriker collected birds in Latin America for over 50 years, however his primary scientific interest was the study of bird lice.^[1]

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• 35 taxon names authored by Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr.

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• 3 eponyms of Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr.

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• 1902. Descriptions of New Mallophaga from Nebraska. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 10(4): 216–229. JSTOR. Reference page. 

• 1933. Descriptions of new birds from Peru, with notes on other little-known species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 85: 1–38. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 1934. Descriptions of New Birds from Peru, with Notes on the Nomenclature and Status of other Little-Known Species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 86: 317–334. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 1935. Descriptions of New Birds from Bolivia, with Notes on Other Little-Known Species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 87: 313–341. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• 1935. Descriptions of New Birds from Peru and Ecuador, with Critical Notes on Other Little-Known Species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 87: 343–359. PDF Reference page. 

• 1936. Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga, Part I. – Lice of the tinamous. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 88: 45–186. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• 1944: Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga (III) [Tinamidae No. 2]. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 95(3180): 81–233. BHL Reference page. 
• 1944: Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga (IV) New genera and species. Boletin de Entomologia Venezolana, 3(2): 65–104. Reference page. 

• 1945: Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga (VII). Goniodes and allied genera from gallinaceous hosts. Revista de la Academia Colombiana, 6(22-23): 355–399. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 1947: Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga (VIII). Ischnocera of the American Psittacidae. Part l. Genus Paragoniocotes. Arthropoda, 1(1): 89–108. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 1949: Neotropical Mallophaga miscellany V. New genera and species. Revista brasileira de biologia, 9(3): 297–313. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 1950: Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga. No. VI. Suborder "Ischnocera". Family "Philopteridae". Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 10(2): 163–188. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• 1950: Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga. No. VIII. "Ischnocera" of the American "Psittacidae", Part 2. Genus "Paragoniocotes" Cummings. Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 10(1): 1–21. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 1954: Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga (XIII). The Menoponidae of the Neotropical Psittacidae. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 2: 145–174. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 1957: A new genus and species of parrot louse from South Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12), 10(118): 733–736. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• & Díaz-Ungría, C. 1961. New and little known Mallophaga from Venezuelan birds (Part I). Novedades Científicas, Contribuciones Ocasionales Museo Historia Natural La Salle, 28: 3–60. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 1966: A revision of the genus Furnaricola (Mallophaga) with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 118(3532): 405–432. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

1. ↑ Smithsonian Institution Archives: Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr., Papers, 1901, 1907, 1909–1910, 1918, 1929–1965.