Frederick Bates

Frederick Bates (18 November 1829 – 6 October 1903) was a British brewer and entomologist. He specialized in beetles and is known for his substantial collection of Tenebrionoidea (Heteromera). Frederick DuCane Godman purchased this collection of 22,390 specimens; the collection was subsequently sold to the Natural History Museum, London in 1881 and 1897. Until the 1890s, he collected beetle specimens from Great Britain; this collection was later owned by Basil Samuel Williams (nephew of Benjamin Samuel Williams).

Bates was born in Leicester, on 18 November 1829, and died in Chiswick, on 6 October 1903, aged 73.

Taxonomy Prakasha amariformis (1892)