Irena Dworakowska

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

[1] She was active at the Uniwersytet Warszawski, Museum and Institute of Zoology of Polish Academy of Sciences and University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

[1][2][3] Dworakowska provided major contributions into systematics and taxonomy of global fauna of Typhlocybinae subfamily of leafhoppers.

[4][5] In her earlier works she revised difficult genera of the Western Palaearctic such as Eupteryx, Eurhadina and Kybos.

Two genera have been named in tribute to her: Dworakowskaia[11] and Irenaneura.