{{Short description|American entomologist}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Edward Albert Chapin |image = |image_size = 200px |caption = |birth_date = 1894 |birth_place = |death_date = 1969 |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |ethnicity = |field = Entomology |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = Leading authority on beetles |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Edward Albert Chapin''' (1894-1969) was an American entomologist employed by the USDA's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, who served as Associate Curator of Insects in the National Museum of Natural History, 1934-1954. He was a specialist on scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae), and erected the genus ''Brumoides'' in 1965.<ref name="SIA archives"> [http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_298428 Edward Albert Chapin personal papers] at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.</ref>
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==External links== [https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxontree/id658024/ "''Brumoides'' Chapin, 1965"]. ''BioLib.cz''. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chapin, Edward Albert}} Category:1894 births Category:1969 deaths Category:American entomologists Category:20th-century American zoologists