John Russell Malloch

John Russell Malloch (16 November 1875 – 1963) was a Scottish entomologist who specialised in Diptera and Hymenoptera.

His widowed father had one son, James Malloch (born 1873) when he married John Russell's mother, Margaret Stirling, on 30 August 1875.

He and several others of his family[1] worked at a textile factory in the area, but he spent his spare time collecting insects in the fields.

By 1912 Malloch had obtained employment in the scientific arena, and spent the remainder of his life studying, collecting, and writing about Diptera, Hymenoptera and other insects in association with the Smithsonian.

[2] In 1914 he published a seminal study listing and providing detailed categorization of the known Diptera order.