Frederick Parkhurst Dodd

Frederick Parkhurst Dodd
Frederick Parkhurst Dodd, with a case containing his largest specimen of the moth, Coscinocera hercules, The Hercules Moth, 1930s
Born	(1861-03-11)11 March 1861 Wickliffe, Victoria
Died	27 July 1937(1937-07-27) (aged 76) Kuranda, Australia
Resting place	Kuranda Cemetery
Known for	Entomological collection
Children	Alan Dodd Elizabeth Dodd Katherine Dodd
Parents	Frederick Dodd Sr. (father) Maria Mayes (mother)

Frederick Parkhurst Dodd in his garden with a butterfly net, 1930s

Frederick Parkhurst Dodd (11 March 1861 – 27 July 1937) was an Australian entomologist. He was known as the Butterfly Man of Kuranda.

Born in Victoria, Dodd worked in a bank in Townsville, Queensland for ten years before taking up entomology full-time. A number of species are named after him and his collection of insects was of importance. He undertook collecting expeditions in New Guinea as well as Australia.

The stonefly genus Doddsia (family Taeniopterygidae) is named in his honour. In 1909, Tillyard named the dragonfly species Austrogomphus doddi after him.

Frederick Dodd’s collecting net on display at the Queensland Museum in South Brisbane

Dodd's son Alan, and daughters Elizabeth and Katharine, continued the entomological tradition.

Further reading

• Monteith, Geoff, The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1992.
• Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930. Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932.

External links

• Dodd, Frederick Parkhurst (1861 - ), biography at the University of Melbourne's Bright Sparcs project.
• Queensland Museum The Butterfly Man of Kuranda Exhibitions