Axel Leonard Melander (3 June 1878 – 14 August 1962)[1] was an American entomologist specialising in Diptera and Hymenoptera.
[2] Specimens collected by Melander are held at the German Entomological Institute and the National Museum of Natural History.
[4] His master's thesis was titled, "A monograph of the Empididæ of North America.
"[5] He was a professor at Washington State University and retired as the chairman of the biology department of the City College of New York in 1943 after joining the faculty there on his graduation from Harvard in 1914.
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