The remains were collected by paleontologist Dr Alan Bartholomai and entomologist Edward Dahms. Forensic entomologist John McGregor's chimpanzee, Inga, finds her and leads her to him. It was coined in 1838 by the German entomologist Hermann Burmeister. Her brother Andrey Avinoff was a prominent entomologist and artist. He was in the same class as Howard Mendel, the Natural History Museum entomologist. Shannon was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and is a grandson of entomologist Raymond Corbett Shannon. An entomologist and fellow of the Linnean Society of London, Alexander Macleay, arrived in 1826. Other children called him "Dr. Bug", and he wanted to become an entomologist. The character Dr. Berenbaum is named for entomologist May Berenbaum. Another subspecies, "L. h. aruensis", was described by Norwegian entomologist Embrik Strand in 1911. It was placed in the subfamily Ponerinae by Austrian entomologist Gustav Mayr in 1862. Walter Froggatt, an economic entomologist, warned of this likelihood at the time. The word was introduced by the entomologist William Morton Wheeler in 1918. The family Mymaridae was first established in 1833 by Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday. For example, like Risley, Atwood is the daughter of an entomologist.