John Henry Wood
John Henry Wood (14 April 1841 – 29 August 1914) was an English entomologist.
Wood was a physician (M.B.C.S), practising in Tarrington, Herefordshire. He wrote 45 scientific papers on Microlepidoptera and, later Diptera and described several new species including Coleophora glaucicolella, Coleophora sylvaticella and Stigmella confusella . The description of Stigmella confusella was a collaboration with his friend Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham.
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- T.A.C., 1914 Obit. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 50(1914):277-278 [1]
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- English entomologists
- People from Herefordshire
- 1841 births
- 1914 deaths
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