Elsie Herbold Froeschner
Elsie Herbold Froeschner (October 6, 1913 – September 12, 2006) was an American scientific illustrator best known for her ink drawings of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera.
[3] Their second daughter, Kay, was born in 1948 – shortly before the family moved from Missouri to Cambridge, Massachusetts for several months so Richard could participate in research at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
The articles were published in Volume 94, Issue 2 of the Journal of the New York Entomological Society in April 1986, and many included admirable mentions of Froeschner.
She was mentioned fondly in the section written by Richard's brothers, who said that her sketches had often appeared on their Christmas cards and that her paintings "have long graced the walls of friends and relatives fortunate to have received them.
[6] An article written by one of Richard's students stressed that, "No mention of Dick Froeschner would be complete without a word about Elsie, her great good cheer, tremendous interest in life, and wondrous drawings and illustrations.
After leaving the Smithsonian in 1975, Elsie worked as a freelance botanical illustrator and was able to dedicate the remainder of her career to travel and research with Richard.
These journeys provided her with the opportunity to draw a vast array of plant and insect species that were native to a variety of different climates and locations.
Throughout the 1950s and 60s, she contributed numerous illustrations to the Iowa State Journal of Science[23] and the botanical edition of Fieldiana, a publication of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
[24] A selection of publications that rely on Froescher's illustrations: Froeschner's work continues to be included in dozens of modern field guides, textbooks, journals and theses.
[46] There have only been a handful of confirmed sightings of its sole species Elsiella plana since it was first identified, all of which have been on the northern coast of South America in Ecuador and Colombia.
[47] A 2012 article published in Zootaxa provided new research that confirmed the validity of Elsiella as a genus by comparing newly found specimens to more than 40 similar species.
Carvalho, a research fellow at the National Museum of Natural History working in Rio de Janeiro, published a paper that detailed his identification of several new members of the Miridae family in 1986.
Carvalho had worked with Richard at Iowa State University and the pair's families quickly became friends, with Froeschner providing the illustrations for many of José's papers.
