Edward L. Todd

Edward L. Todd (1922-1986) was an American research entomologist, who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture.

Biography
Edward Todd was born in Eureka, Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas, where he earned his bachelor of art, and master of art Ph.D. degrees.

Todd worked as an entomologist from 1951 to 1952, for the Communicable Disease Center, United States Public Health Service, in Georgia. He then became a research entomologist in the United States National Museum, working in the division of Insect Identification, United States Department of Agriculture. In 1972 this division became the 'systematic entomology laboratory'. Todd continued to work in the United States Public Health Service, on the taxonomy and systematics of Lepidoptera (Noctuidae), and Hemiptera (Gelastocoridae) until his retirement in 1979.