Alexander Henry Haliday, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Henry Haliday

Irish entomologist

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1807

Place of Birth: Holywood, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 12-Jul-1870

Profession: entomologist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Alexander Henry Haliday (1806–1870, also known as Enrico Alessandro Haliday, Alexis Heinrich Haliday, or simply Haliday) was an Irish entomologist.
He is primarily known for his work on Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Thysanoptera, but worked on all insect orders and on many aspects of entomology. Haliday was born in Holywood, County Down, Ireland.
A boyhood friend of Robert Templeton, he divided his time between Ireland and Lucca, where he co-founded the Italian Entomological Society with Camillo Rondani and Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti.
He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, the Belfast Natural History Society, the Microscopical Society of London, and the Galileiana Academy of Arts and Science, as well as a fellow of the (now Royal) Entomological Society of London. Alexander Haliday was among the greatest dipterists of the 19th century and one of the most renowned British entomologists.
His achievements were in four main fields: description, higher taxonomy, synonymy, and biology.
He erected many major taxa including the order Thysanoptera and the families Mymaridae and Ichneumonidae.