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Paul D. Brock

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Paul D. Brock
Born1958 (age 67–68)
Known forTaxonomy of stick insects (Phasmatodea)
Scientific career
Fields Entomology
Institutions Natural History Museum, London
Author abbrev. (zoology) Brock

Paul D. Brock (born 1958) is a British entomologist and a scientific associate in the Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London. He is regarded as an expert on stick insects (order Phasmatodea).

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Early life and career

Brock grew up in Slough, Berkshire. At the age of ten, he kept his first stick insects. After leaving school at sixteen, he initially applied for an apprenticeship in a pest control laboratory, but instead began working as a bank clerk. In 1974, Judith Marshall, a scientific officer in the entomology department at the Natural History Museum, showed Brock a collection of stick insects that included several undescribed specimens. This encounter inspired him to study taxonomy and to prepare original species descriptions of numerous new taxa. He has described more than 30 species of stick insects, including the South African species Macynia mcgregororum , Clonaria cederbergensis , and Clonaria capemontana [1] as well as the Vietnamese species Dajaca napolovi . [2]

In addition, Brock has described several genera and is a co-author of more than 70 further taxa. [3]

Professional activities

From 1999 to 2001, Brock served as President of the Amateur Entomologists’ Society. Since October 2015, he has been Treasurer of the Phasmid Study Group. Since 2016, Brock has participated in a Natural History Museum project to assess the conservation status of more than 1,000 invertebrate species, alongside numerous other entomologists, including Axel Hochkirch. The project covers a wide range of taxa and regions, including millipedes and thorny grasshoppers from Madagascar, stick insects and velvet spiders from Australia, millipedes, cockroach crickets and birdwing butterflies from South Africa, mantises from India, endemic invertebrates from the Azores and Saint Helena, endemic spiders from Madeira, and endemic earthworms from New Zealand. [4]

Publications

Brock has authored or co-authored numerous books on insects, including:

His book The Amazing World of Stick and Leaf-Insects is widely regarded as a standard reference work on Phasmatodea. In 2007, Brock and Jack Hasenpusch published a major revision of Australian stick insects, describing 17 new species. [5]

Eponymy

The following stick insect taxa have been named in his honour:

References

  1. ↑ Brock, Paul D. (2006). "Three new species of South African stick insects (Phasmida)". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 15 (1): 37–44.
  2. ↑ Brock, Paul D. (2000). "A new species of Dajaca Brunner (Phasmida: Pseudophasmatidae) from Vietnam". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 9: 1–3.
  3. ↑ Brock, Paul D.; Thies H. Büscher; E. Baker. "Phasmida Species File Online". 5.0. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  4. ↑ "Conservation Status of Invertebrates". ResearchGate. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  5. ↑ Brock, Paul D.; Hasenpusch, Jack (2007). "Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography". Zootaxa. 1570.
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