Frank Morton Carpenter

Frank Morton Carpenter (1902–1994), U.S. paleoentomologist. Was the curator of fossil insects at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for 60 years.

Taxon names authored

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• 12 taxon names authored by Frank Morton Carpenter

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 eponym of Frank Morton Carpenter

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1927

• Carpenter, F.M. 1927. Notes on a collection of amber ants. Psyche 34: 30–32.

1929

• Carpenter, F.M. 1929. A fossil ant from the Lower Eocene (Wilcox) of Tennessee. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 19: 300–301.

1930

• Carpenter, F.M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College 70: 1–66. BHL Reference page. 

1931

• Carpenter, F.M. 1931. The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 2. The Orders Paleodictyoptera, Protodonata and Odonata. American Journal of Science, Series 5, 21: 97–139. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s5-21.122.97 [nonfunctional] .
• Carpenter, F.M. 1931. The Lower Permian insects of Kansas. Part 4. The order Hemiptera, and additions to the Paleodictyoptera and Protohymenoptera. American Journal of Science, Series 5, 22(128): 113–130. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s5-22.128.113 Reference page. 

1933

• Carpenter, F.M. 1933. The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 6: Delopteridae, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and a New Collection of Protodonata, Odonata, Megasecoptera, Homoptera and Psocoptera. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 68(11): 411–505. JSTOR .

1935

• Carpenter, F.M. 1935. A new name for Lithomyrmex Carp. (Hymenoptera). Psyche 42: 91.

1936

• Bequaert, J.C. & Carpenter, F.M. 1936. The Nemestrinidae of Florissant, Colorado, and their relations to the recent fauna. Journal of Paleontology 10: 395–409. JSTOR .

1937

• Carpenter, F.M., Folsom, J.W., Essig, E.O., Kinsey, A.C., Brues, C.T., Boesel, M.W. & Ewing, H.E. 1937. Insects and arachnids from Canadian amber. University of Toronto studies. Geological series 40: 7–62.

1939

• Carpenter, F.M. 1939. The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 8: Additional Megasecoptera, Protodonata, Odonata, Homoptera, Psocoptera, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera, and Protoperlaria. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 73(3): 29–70. JSTOR .

1940

• Carpenter, F.M. 1940: A Revision of the Neararctic Hemerobiidae, Berothidae, Sisyridae, Polystoechotidae, and Dilaridae (Neuroptera). Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 74: 193–280, 3pls

1965

• Carpenter, F.M. & Kukalová, J. 1965 ("1964"). The Structure of the Protelytroptera, With Description of a New Genus From Permian Strata of Moravi. Psyche 71(4): 183–197. DOI: 10.1155/1964/41528 . BHL.

1967

• Wilson, E.O., Carpenter, F.M. & Brown, W.L. 1967. The first Mesozoic ants. Science 157: 1038–1040.
• Wilson, E.O., Carpenter, F.M. & Brown, W.L. 1967. The first Mesozoic ants, with the description of a new subfamily. Psyche 74: 1–19.

1969

• Carpenter, F.M. 1969. Fossil Insects From Antarctica. Psyche 76(4): 418–425. DOI: 10.1155/1969/17070 .

1976

• Carpenter, F.M. 1976. The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Pan 12. Protorthoptera (continued), Neuroptera, Additional Palaeodictyoptera, and Families of Uncertain Position. Psyche 83(3–4): 336–376. DOI: 10.1155/1976/932123 .
• Carpenter, F.M. & Richardson, E.S., Jr. 1976. Structure and Relationships of the Upper Carboniferous Insect, Eucaenus ovalis (Protorthoptera: Eucaenidae). Psyche 83(3–4): 223–242. DOI: 10.1155/1976/931691 .

1978

• Carpenter, F.M. & Richardson, E.S., Jr. 1978. Structure and Relationships of the Upper Carboniferous Insect, Prochoroptera calopteryx (Diaphanopterodea, Prochoropteridae). Psyche 85(2–3): 219–228. DOI: 10.1155/1978/53681 .

1979

• Brown, W.L. & Carpenter, F.M. 1979. A restudy of two ants from the Sicilian amber. Psyche 85: 417–423.
• Carpenter, F.M. 1979. Lower Permian insects from Oklahoma. Part 2. Orders Ephemeroptera and Palaeodictyoptera. Psyche 86: 261–290. DOI: 10.1155/1979/96359 . BHL.

1980

• Carpenter, F.M. 1980. Studies on North American Carboniferous Insects. 6. Upper Carboniferous Insects From Pennsylvania. Psyche 87(1–2): 107–119. DOI: 10.1155/1980/26430 .

1983

• Carpenter, F.M. 1983. Studies on North American Carboniferous Insects. 7. The Structure and Relationships of Eubleptus danielsi (Palaeodictyoptera). Psyche 90(1–2): 81–95. DOI: 10.1155/1983/93848 .

1986

• Carpenter, F.M. 1986. Substitute names for some extinct genera of fossil insects. Psyche 92(4): 575–582. BHL.

1987

• Carpenter, F.M. 1987. Review of the extinct family Syntonopteridae (order uncertain). Psyche 94(3–4): 373–388. DOI: 10.1155/1987/25879 .

1992

• Carpenter, F.M. 1992. Superclass Hexapoda. In: Kaesler, R.L. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part R, Arthropoda 4, Volumes 3 and 4. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. xxi + 655 pp. ISBN 0-8137-3019-8. DOI: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5370 . Reference page.