Entomological Society of Queensland

supporting entomological research in Australia since 1923

The Society's emblem, chosen in 1973, on the 50th anniversary of the Society, is the King Stag Beetle, Phalacrognathus muelleri (Macleay), Family Lucanidae (Coleoptera). Its magnificent purple and green colouration makes it one of the most attractive beetle species in Australia. It is restricted to the rainforests of northern Queensland.

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Martin Joseph MANSKI  (1897-1989)

Joe Manski was born Maryborough to immigrant German parents who settled there in 1885. He was schooled in Maryborough and had a career with the Post Office from age of 15 until retirement 1962. Served in WW1. Interested in butterflies from childhood. Began rearing species and recording butterfly hostplants after transfer to Innisfail, later Cairns, in 1926. Founding member of North Queensland Naturalists Club and published many articles in North Queensland Naturalist. Active in Entomological Society of Queensland and Queensland Naturalists Club. After 1941 he transferred to Brisbane. Collected with Ludwig Franzen and became interested in Neuroptera through him, naming one new species after his fellow collector, Stan Brock, in 1948. Returned to Maryborough in 1945. Published a final life list of 250 foodplants of 136 spp of Queensland Lepidoptera in 1960 in Queensland Naturalist.  His collection passed to the University of Queensland in 1963 and is now in the Queensland Museum.

Biography: Dunn, K.L. 1989. Victorian Entomologist 19: 9-13, 61-64; Dunn, K.L. 1989. Myrmecia 25(4): 157-158.