Daniel William Coquillett [SEP] place of death
Daniel William Coquillett
Daniel William Coquillett (23 January 1856, Pleasant Valley, Ill. – 7 July 1911 Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He wrote a revision of the dipterous family Therevidae and many other scientific papers in which he described many new species and genera of Diptera. Coquillett was also the first to attempt fumigation with hydrocyanic acid as a means for controlling citrus scale insects. He experimented in the Wolfskill orange groves where he was supported by the foreman and later quarantine entomologist Alexander
Coquillettidia
Coquillettidia is a mosquito genus erected by entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. in 1904 based primarily on unique features of its "peculiar" male genitalia. The specific epithet honors Dyar's colleague Daniel William Coquillett.
The genus comprises three subgenera, "Austromansonia", "Coquillettidia", and "Rhynochotaenia", and 57 species, of which "Coquillettidia perturbans" is perhaps the best known.
Bionomics.
Not all species have been well documented, but females of some are known to feed primarily on birds