Irena Dworakowska

Irena Dworakowska (born 1941) is a Polish entomologist who specialized in hemipterology.

Career She was active at the Uniwersytet Warszawski, Museum and Institute of Zoology of Polish Academy of Sciences and University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In her earlier works she revised difficult genera of the Western Palaearctic such as Eupteryx, Eurhadina and Kybos. Later publications are focused on Oriental and Ethiopian regions. and is known for unusual names she coined, such as Yakuza, Dziwneono (pl: it is strange), Kropka (pl: a dot), Koperta (pl: envelope) or Niedoida (pl: niedojda - duffer).

As a name authority she is cited as Dworakowska.

Legacy Two genera have been named in tribute to her: Dworakowskaia and Irenaneura.