Philip James Barraud


Philip James Barraud was an English entomologist who specialised in mosquitoes. He worked in Iraq and India where he invented the Barraud cage for the transport and study of live mosquitoes. Barraud described many new genera and species of Culicidae. His collection, which included Palearctic Lepidoptera is in the Natural History Museum. The genus Barraudius Edwards, F.W., 1921 is named for him.

Works

Partial list:
of the subgenus. Descriptions of the Indian species of Aedes, Aedes, and Aedes,
with notes on Aedes uariegatus. Indian J. Med.Res. 15: 653-69.
1934. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Diptera V, family Culicidae, tribes Megarhinini and Culicini.
Taylor and Francis, London. 463 p..