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Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald
1868–1930
A British entomologist best remembered for his pioneering work on mosquitoes, he helped turn insect study into practical science for farming and public health. His writing reflects a time when careful observation and classification were reshaping how people understood disease-carrying insects.
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The Animal Parasites of Man
by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Max Braun, J. W. W. (John William Watson) Stephens, Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald
About the author
Born in 1868, Frederick Vincent Theobald was a British entomologist whose work linked natural history with practical problems in agriculture and health. He is especially known for his large multi-volume study Monograph of the Culicidae of the World, a major early reference on mosquitoes.
Theobald also worked in economic and agricultural entomology, including research connected with fruit farming and insect pests. Later accounts of his career note that after his mosquito studies he returned to agricultural entomology and also published work on aphids, showing the wide range of insects he studied.
He died on March 6, 1930. Today he is remembered chiefly for the scale of his mosquito research and for helping establish entomology as a field with real everyday importance.