Charles Thomas Brues


Charles Thomas Brues was an American entomologist.

Biography

Brues studied at the University of Texas at Austin and at Columbia University. He was appointed field agent of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 1904-05, curator of invertebrate zoology at the Milwaukee Public Museum 1905-09, and then became instructor in economic entomology at Harvard University.
His contributions on embryology and the habits of insects, notably Hymenoptera and Diptera are highly instructive. He was editor of the Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society 1907-09, and in 1910 was appointed editor of Psyche, a journal of entomology.
In 1913, while employed at the Bussey Institution, he was part of a three-person team that studied tropical diseases in Peru and Ecuador.
Brues is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Caribbean snake, Mastigodryas bruesi.

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