Ezra Townsend Cresson (18 June 1838, inByberry – 19 April 1926, inSwarthmore) was an Americanentomologist who specialized in theHymenoptera order of insects. He wroteSynopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico Philadelphia: Paul C. Stockhausen, Entomological printer (1887) and many other works. Cresson also documented many new species includingNomada texana.
In 1859, Cresson founded the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, together with James Ridings and George Newman. The society was later renamed to theAmerican Entomological Society in 1867.[1]
Two of his sons, George Bringhurst Cresson (1859–1919) andEzra Townsend Cresson, Jr. (1876–1948), were also entomologists and members of the American Entomological Society. George B. Cresson was a general naturalist and specialist inants, and Ezra T. Cresson Jr. was a specialist inDiptera.[1]
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