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'Charles Thomas Bingham' (April 16 1848 Ireland – October 18 1908 West Kensington, London) was an Irish military officer and entomologist.
Bingham’s military career began in India where he was a soldier in the Bombay Staff Corps and later with the Bengal Staff Corps. At first interested in ornithology he took up entomology from 1877 following a posting to Burma where he was also Conservator of Forests.
On his retirement in 1894 he settled with his wife and two sons, (his three daughters married in India), in London. Here he worked, unpaid, in the “Insect Room” of the Natural History Museum, organising and cataloguing the world collection of Aculeate Hymenoptera. He took over from William Thomas Blanford the editorship of two of the Hymenoptera volumes of the Fauna of British India series and two of the butterfly volumes.
He was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1895 and was a member of its council 1903-1906. In the same year he became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.
He collaborated with other naturalists across India to produce his works on the Indian lepidoptera and hymenoptera.
★ ''Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma''. ''Hymenoptera''. Volume 1. Wasps and bees. London: Taylor and Francis(1897).
★ ''Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma''. ''Hymenoptera'', Volume 2. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis(1903).
★ ''Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma''. ''Butterflies'' Volume 1.London: Taylor and Francis(1905).
★ ''Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma''. ''Butterflies'' Volume 2.London: Taylor and Francis(1907)
He also extensively improved on the earlier published information from Frederic Moore and Lionel de Niceville. The following is from his his preface to the butterflies volume of the Fauna of British India:
Hymenoptera in the Natural History Museum , London.
Duplicates in Humboldt Museum, Berlin.
Lepidoptera. Scattered, presumably sold. Parnassius in Ulster Museum Belfast.
★ Anonymous 1909: [Bingham, C. T.] - Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 45
★ Dodd, F.P. (1906). Notes upon some remarkable parasitic insects from North Queensland; with an appendix containing descriptions of new species, by Colonel Charles T. Bingham, F.Z.S, and Dr Beno Wandolleck. ''Trans. Ent. Soc. London'' 1906: 119-124.
★ Fauna of British India - Butterflies volume 1
★ Fauna of British India - Butterflies volume 2
★ Fauna of British India - Hymenoptera volume 2
Bingham’s military career began in India where he was a soldier in the Bombay Staff Corps and later with the Bengal Staff Corps. At first interested in ornithology he took up entomology from 1877 following a posting to Burma where he was also Conservator of Forests.
On his retirement in 1894 he settled with his wife and two sons, (his three daughters married in India), in London. Here he worked, unpaid, in the “Insect Room” of the Natural History Museum, organising and cataloguing the world collection of Aculeate Hymenoptera. He took over from William Thomas Blanford the editorship of two of the Hymenoptera volumes of the Fauna of British India series and two of the butterfly volumes.
He was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1895 and was a member of its council 1903-1906. In the same year he became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.
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Works
He collaborated with other naturalists across India to produce his works on the Indian lepidoptera and hymenoptera.
★ ''Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma''. ''Hymenoptera''. Volume 1. Wasps and bees. London: Taylor and Francis(1897).
★ ''Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma''. ''Hymenoptera'', Volume 2. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis(1903).
★ ''Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma''. ''Butterflies'' Volume 1.London: Taylor and Francis(1905).
★ ''Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma''. ''Butterflies'' Volume 2.London: Taylor and Francis(1907)
He also extensively improved on the earlier published information from Frederic Moore and Lionel de Niceville. The following is from his his preface to the butterflies volume of the Fauna of British India:
Collections
Hymenoptera in the Natural History Museum , London.
Duplicates in Humboldt Museum, Berlin.
Lepidoptera. Scattered, presumably sold. Parnassius in Ulster Museum Belfast.
References
★ Anonymous 1909: [Bingham, C. T.] - Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 45
★ Dodd, F.P. (1906). Notes upon some remarkable parasitic insects from North Queensland; with an appendix containing descriptions of new species, by Colonel Charles T. Bingham, F.Z.S, and Dr Beno Wandolleck. ''Trans. Ent. Soc. London'' 1906: 119-124.
External links
★ Fauna of British India - Butterflies volume 1
★ Fauna of British India - Butterflies volume 2
★ Fauna of British India - Hymenoptera volume 2
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