{{Short description|American entomologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Harry Willis Allen | image = | image_size = 200px | caption = | birth_date = 1892 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death year and age|1981|1892}} | death_place = | citizenship = | ethnicity = | field = entomologist | work_institutions = | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = World's authority on wasps | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = | signature = }} '''Harry Willis Allen''' (1892-1981) was an entomologist involved with the United States Department of Agriculture.<ref name="SIA archives">[http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_252309 Harry W. Allen] at SIA archives.</ref> He was the president of the American Entomological Society,<ref>[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/esa/besa/1959/00000005/00000002/art00059 One Hundredth Anniversary Celebration, American Entomological Society] Gurney, Ashley B. Bulletin of the ESA, Volume 5, Number 2, 15 June 1959, pp. 89-89(1) Entomological Society of America.{{Dead link|date=February 2024}}</ref> and is considered a world authority on wasps.<ref name="SIA archives"/>
==Bibliography== * ''North American species of two-winged flies belonging to the tribe Miltogrammini'', Volume 68 of Proceedings of the United States National Museum. [Offprint]. Ohio State University, 1926. * ''A revision of Neotiphia Malloch and Krombeinia Pate: (Hymenoptera, Tiphidae)'' (co-authored with Karl V. Krombein). Published in 1964. * ''Redescriptions of Types of Tiphiinae from Asia, Africa, Oceania in the British Museum (NH) and at Oxford University''. American Entomological Society, 1969. * ''A Monographic Study of the Subfamily Tiphiinae Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae of South America'', Volume 113 of Smithsonian Contributions to zoology. Smithsonian Inst. Press, 1972. * ''The Genus Tiphia of the Indian Subcontinent''; Technical Bulletin No. 1509, Agricultural Research Service. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Issued July 1975.
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