Ezra Townsend Cresson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ezra Townsend Cresson

American entomologist

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1838

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1926

Profession: zoologist, entomologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Ezra Townsend Cresson, also Ezra Townsend senior (18 June 1838, Byberry – 19 April 1926, Swarthmore) was an American entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.
He wrote Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico Philadelphia: Paul C.
Stockhausen, Entomological printer (1887) and many other works.
His son Ezra Townsend, Jr.
(1876–1948) was also an entomologist but a specialist in Diptera. Cresson also documented many new species including Nomada texana.