Morgan Hebard

Morgan Hebard (February 23, 1887 – December 28, 1946) was an American entomologist who specialized in orthoptera, and assembled a collection of over 250,000 specimens.

Early life and education Morgan Hebard was born on February 23, 1887, in Cleveland, Ohio to Hannah Jeanette (née Morgan) and Charles Samuel Hebard. Due to his family's lumber businesses, they had houses in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Thomasville, Georgia and Pequaming, Michigan, and he grew up exploring the outdoors in all three locations, as well as Miami, Florida, which his family regularly visited. Hebard attended Asheville School in North Carolina, educated by a private tutor, before graduating from Yale University in 1910. At Yale, Hebard won prizes as a member of the gun team. At the time of his graduation, he intended to enter the family lumber business. He described over 800 new species of orthopteroids; this included 44 new species and ten new genera of Phasmids (six new genera on his own and four as co-author with Rehn). and Hebardacris Rehn, 1952. Beginning about 1936 he was affected by acute rheumatoid arthritis. He died in Philadelphia on December 28, 1946, and is buried at St Thomas' Cemetery in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania. Hebard was a convert to the Catholic faith.