# Edward Albert Chapin

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{{Short description|American entomologist}}
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'''Edward Albert Chapin''' (1894-1969) was an American [entomologist](/source/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](/source/National_Museum_of_Natural_History), 1934-1954.  He was a specialist on scarab beetles ([Scarabaeidae](/source/Scarabaeidae)), and erected the genus ''[Brumoides](/source/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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