Bishop MuseumExplore
Portrait of Gordon Allan Samuelson

Collectors

Gordon Allan Samuelson

Liverpool Industrialist and Founder of The Middle Temple · 1829–1919

420 specimens, collected between 1962 and 2001 on 67 collecting days, now held in 5 departments. Identified 165 specimens for others.

On the labels as Samuelson, G.A., GA Samuelson, G A Samuelson, G. Allan Samuelson, Samuelson, G. A. Samuelson, Samuelson, G. A., Gordon Allan Samuelson and 7 more.

Specimens
420
Type specimens
85
Years in the field
40
Islands
10
Species
202
Identifications
165
In the Library
14
Named after
14

Where Samuelson collected

Specimens by decade

1960s2000s

Earliest: Lecanopteris pustulata, 1962 (Raoul). Latest: Veronicella cubensis, 2001.

In the Library

Publications in the Library whose author line carries this name.

  1. 2006

    Additions and notes to the Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Hawaiian Islands

    Johnson, P.J. & Samuelson, G.A. · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 88: 22-24.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  2. 2006

    The Eucalyptus snout beetle, Gonipterus scutellatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) recently established in the Hawaiian Islands

    Haimes, W.P. & Samuelson, G.A. · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 88: 25-26.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  3. 2006

    The Coleoptera of Lehua Iselt, Hawai`i

    Ramsdale, A.S. & Samuelson, G.A. · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 88: 30-36.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  4. 2006

    Passandridae (Coleoptera), a new beetle family established in the Hawaiian Islands

    Samuelson, G.A. & Ramsdale, A.S. · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 88: 36-37.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  5. 2006

  6. 2006

    Callirhipidae, a new family to the Hawaiian beetle fauna

    Samuelson, G.A. & Johnson, P.J. · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 88: 44-45.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  7. 2006

    Specularius impressithorax, an adventive bean weevil on Erythrina new to the Hawaiian Islands (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

    Samuelson, G.A. & Medeiros, A.C. · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 88: 45-47.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  8. 2004

    Arthropod survey of the Waiakea 1942 Lava Flow Natural area Reserve and slected kipuka within the Mauna Loa Kipuka Mosaic, Hawai‘i

    Preston, D.J., M.K.K. McShane, N.L. Evenhuis, G.A. Samuelson, K.T. Arakaki & D.A. Polhemus · Report submitted to the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of forestry and Wildlife, Natural Area Reserve System, Honolulu. ii + 47 p.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  9. 2002

    Aquatic Organism Study for the Koa Timber Commercial Forestry Operation South Hilo District, County of Hawai‘i

    Englund, R.A., D.J. Preston, G.A. Samuelson, K. Arakaki & N.L. Evenhuis · Report prepared for Koa Timber, Inc., Hawai‘i 30 p.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  10. 2001

    A review of Rhyncogonus of the Hawaiian Islands (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

    Samuelson, G.A. · Report prepared for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Honolulu.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  11. 1996

    Saddle Road Project: assessment of the impacts on invertebrates (land snails, insects, and other arthropods)

    Evenhuis, N.L., R.H. Cowie, G.M. Nishida, G.A. Samuelson, and F.G. Howarth · Report prepared for Rust E & I, Phoenix. 84 p.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  12. 1996

    Binding sites: Elytron-to-body meshing structures of possible significance in the higher classification of Chrysomeloidea, p

    Samuelson, G. A. · 267-90 in P.H.A. Jolivet and M. L. Cox (eds.), Chrysomelidae biology. Volume 1: The classification, phylogeny and genetics. SPB Academic Publishing, Amsterdam.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  13. 1995

    First endemic click beetle from Nihoa Island (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

    Samuelson, G.A. & P.J. Johnson · Bishop Museum Occasional Paper 41: 75-79.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  14. 1992

    The first endemic troglobitic carabid beetles in Haaiian lava tubes (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

    Liebherr, J.K. & Samuelson, G.A. · Pan-Pacific Entomologist 68(3): 157-168.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

Search the Library for “Samuelson” →

Named for Samuelson

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Samuelson. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

From the field

ElasmiasPatellaPlantago lanceolataAlsophila milneiAlsophila milneiLamellideaLiardetiaBobea sandwicensisTornatellidaeTornatellidesAustroblechnum norfolkianumAlsophila milnei

As a determiner

165 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often: