Lionel Jack Dumbleton

Lionel Jack Dumbleton (1905 – 25 September 1976) was a New Zealand entomologist. He was born in Hampden, New Zealand and was a founding member of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.^[1]

One of his most remarkable biological discoveries was a new genus of caddis-fly-like primitive moths that he described as Agathiphaga^[2] and which has been subsequently raised to superfamily level as the second most primitive known living lineage of moths, Agathiphagoidea.^{[citation needed]}

In 1998 a new genus of hepialid moths was named Dumbletonius in his honour, and Hort Research has a building in Auckland named after him.^{[citation needed]}

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