Person
Domrow, Robert (Bob) (1931 - )
- Born
- 4 January 1931
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Entomologist
Summary
Robert Domrow is one of the world's leading acarologists, his specialty being parasitic mites (Order Acarina). He is an authority on sarcoptiform and trombidiform mites parasitic on Australian and Malaysian vertebrates. By invitation in the 1960s Domrow spent time unit at the Institute of Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur working on potential acarine vectors particularly of the Australasian, Malaysian and oriental regions. In his many publications he described 13 new genera and over 300 new species of Australian mites, extending the known range of some species and recording others from Australia for the first time. Between 1988 and 1992 he published three extensive checklists with keys of mites parasitic on Australian vertebrates. The Queensland Museum holds approximately 14,000 specimens of mites collected by Domrow, one of Australia's most significant such collections.
Details
Chronology
- 1949 - 1952
- Career position - Cadet (later Assistant), Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- 1952 - 1961
- Career position - Research Officer, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- 1954
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Queensland
- 1958
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Queensland
- 1961 - 1965
- Career position - Research Officer Division 1, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- 1965 - 1988
- Career position - Research Entomologist (later Senior Entomologist (Acarology)), Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- 1988
- Life event - Retired
- 1988 - 1990
- Career position - Honorary Associate, Queensland Museum
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Angus, B. M.; Cannon, L. G. R.; and Adlard, R. D., 'Parasitology and the Queensland Museum, with Biographical Notes on Collectors', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Nature, 53 (2007), 1-156. Details
Helen Cohn
Last modified: 10 August 2016