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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• 7 taxon names authored by 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.
• 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. 

1935

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

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.

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

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.

1979

• Brown, W.L. & Carpenter, F.M. 1979. A restudy of two ants from the Sicilian amber. Psyche 85: 417–423.

1986

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

1992

• Carpenter, F.M. 1992. Arthropoda 4. Superclass Hexopoda. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part R. The Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO. 655 pp.