Benjamin Preston Clark

Benjamin Preston Clark (October 8, 1860, in West Roxbury January 11, 1939, in Philadelphia) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, especially Sphingidae. His worldwide collection is in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Clark wrote New American Sphingidae (1916) and very many scientific papers describing new species of Sphingidae.

References

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