Draft:Albert Orr

Albert George Orr, born 1953 in Maleny, Queensland, is an Australian entomologist.[1] He studied mathematics and entomology at Queensland University and graduated in 1974.[1] He received a PhD from Griffith University in 1988 for work on mating in butterflies.[2] He worked for ten years at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and from 2000 he has been an honorary research fellow at Griffith University.[1] He has been the editor of The Australian Entomologist.[1] He was awarded the World Dragonfly Association’s award in 2005.[1] He and co-author Vincent J. Kalkman were awarded the 2013 Whitley Medal by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.[3]

Books
  • A guide to the dragonflies of Borneo – Their identification and biology (2003)
  • Dragonflies of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore (2005)
  • The Metalwing Demoiselles of the Eastern Tropics – Their Identification and Biology (with Matti Hämäläinen 2007)
  • The Butterflies of Australia (with Roger L. Kitching, 2010)
  • Field Guide to the damselflies of New Guinea (with Vincent J. Kalkman 2013)
  • Field Guide to the dragonflies of New Guinea (with Vincent J. Kalkman 2015)
  • A field guide to the common Dragonflies and Damselflies of Bhutan (with Thinley Gyeltshen and Vincent J. Kalkman, 2017)
  • Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia (with Günther Theischinger and John Hawking, 2021)

References
  1. Albert Orr and Roger Kitching, The Butterflies of Australia. Sydney 2010. ISBN 978 1 74175 108 6.
  2. Orr, Albert George; Griffith University. School of Australian Environmental Studies. Thesis (Ph.D.), 1988 (1988), Mate conflict and the evolution of the sphragis in butterflies, School of Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University, retrieved 30 March 2023
  3. "2013 Winners". Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Retrieved 2023-03-30.

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