Talk:Walter Wilson Froggatt
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Taxa named after Froggatt
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But the name Froggatt lives on, and is very familiar to most Victorian and Australian naturalists as more than 18 species of plants and animals have been named after him.
The insects include:
- several ant species (Anonychomyrma froggatti, Camponotus froggatti, Myrmecia froggatti, Adlerzia froggatti, Stigmacros froggatti and Liomyrmex froggatti, Solenopsis froggatti, Leptomyrmex froggatti as well as Froggattella kirbii and F. latispina);
- beetles such as the Ground Beetle Notonomus froggatti, Tiger Beetle Cicindela froggatti, the Kurrajong Pod Beetle Australaethina froggatti and Stag Beetle Ceratognathus froggatti;
- bugs such as the Apple Leafhopper (Edwardsiana froggatti) and the well-named cicada Maroon Clicker (Kobonga froggatti);
- booklouse Austropsocus froggatti;
- thrip Haplothrips froggatti;
- fruit fly Bactrocera froggatti;
- and the eulophid wasp Aprostocetus froggatti.
But perhaps the two best known insect species are the Moreton Bay Fig Wasp (Pleistodontes froggatti) and the Eucalyptus Leaf-blister Sawfly (Phylacteophaga froggatti), both species very familiar to Victorian insect enthusiasts.
His name also appears regularly, sometimes bracketed, after genera such as Pseudopsylla and Glyptotermes. And Froggatt’s Bendigo childhood is commemorated by the Kamarooka Mallee (Eucalyptus froggatti).