Clarence Eugene Mickel

Clarence E. Mickel (February 29, 1892 – August 29, 1982) was an American entomologist, known for his expertise in Mutillidae, among other insect families.

Biography Mickel was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. In 1917 he worked as an assistant to the Nebraska state entomologist. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1930, so that he could visit Europe and continue his work studying parasites of wasps. As of 1937 he was curator of the University of Minnesota's 900,000-specimen entomology collection. He was considered a "world authority" on velvet ants. His work included two well-regarded monographs on the genus Dasymutilla.

Mickel was an officer of the Entomological Society of America every year between 1936 and 1945. He was a visiting professor at the University of Seoul in 1957. Mickel died in Pima County, Arizona in 1982.