James Alexander Slater (1920–2008) was an American zoologist and educator who served as Professor of Entomology at the University of Connecticut from 1953 to 1988.
He served as editor of Entomologica Americana and held a research fellowship with the British Museum of Natural History in 1960–61.
He collected specimens of Rhyparochromidae (Heteroptera) from all over the world, including Africa, Australia, Central America, the Caribbean, and Florida.
[2] Many of these specimens are held in the Biodiversity Research Collections of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut.
He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and four children: James Alexander Slater II (also an entomologist; known as Alex[8]), Jacquely, Samuel, and Lydia.