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Hem Singh Pruthi
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'''Hem Singh Pruthi''' (23 February 1897 – 23 December 1969) was an Indian entomologist who served as Imperial Entomologist, being the first native Indian in that position.
He was born at Begowalo, Sialkot where his father Dr Bhagat Singh Pruti worked in the Police and Jail Hospital at Gujranwala. He studied locally and completed his MSc at the Government College in Lahore and joined [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]], where he was a Charles Abercrombie Smith Student and obtained a Ph.D. in 1924.<ref></ref> Pruthi received an Sc.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1943. He then became an assistant superintendent at the Zoological Survey of India at Calcutta. He worked mainly on the Hemiptera. He then joined the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and became the Imperial Entomologist, succeeding [[Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher|T.B. Fletcher]] in 1934. In 1938 he founded the Entomological Society of India. Pruthi's work during this period was mainly on insects of economic importance and was a plant protection advisor to the Government of India and established a locust warning system. He retired in 1953.<ref></ref> In 1963 he published a ''Textbook of Agricultural Entomology''.
A number of species of hemipterans have been named after him including ''[[Pruthiana]]'', ''[[Pruthiorosius]]'', and ''[[Pruthius]]''. His student M.S. Mani named a fly ''Pruthidiplosis'' after him.
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'''Hem Singh Pruthi''' (23 February 1897 – 23 December 1969) was an Indian entomologist who served as Imperial Entomologist, being the first native Indian in that position.
He was born at Begowalo, Sialkot where his father Dr Bhagat Singh Pruti worked in the Police and Jail Hospital at Gujranwala. He studied locally and completed his MSc at the Government College in Lahore and joined [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]], where he was a Charles Abercrombie Smith Student and obtained a Ph.D. in 1924.<ref></ref> Pruthi received an Sc.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1943. He then became an assistant superintendent at the Zoological Survey of India at Calcutta. He worked mainly on the Hemiptera. He then joined the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and became the Imperial Entomologist, succeeding [[Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher|T.B. Fletcher]] in 1934. In 1938 he founded the Entomological Society of India. Pruthi's work during this period was mainly on insects of economic importance and was a plant protection advisor to the Government of India and established a locust warning system. He retired in 1953.<ref></ref> In 1963 he published a ''Textbook of Agricultural Entomology''.
A number of species of hemipterans have been named after him including ''[[Pruthiana]]'', ''[[Pruthiorosius]]'', and ''[[Pruthius]]''. His student M.S. Mani named a fly ''Pruthidiplosis'' after him.
==References==
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