Peter Michael Hammond (17 February 1941 – 17 September 2021) was a British entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera (beetles).
After working for a time in China, Hammond was appointed to his job at the NHM in the 1960s by the museum's then-head Coleopterist Jack Balfour-Browne (1907–2002).
[1] Hammond, with Jane Marshall, worked on Fritz van Emden's (1898–1958) specimens in the 1970s[4] and contributed to the Monograph originally instigated by van Emden's research into beetle larvae, published by the Royal Entomological Society in 2019: British Coleoptera Larvae.
From 1981, Hammond served as an editor on the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, and contributed book reviews.
[3] Hammond was known for his talent for surveying areas for beetles, whether researching unpopulated forest areas[5][6] or suburban spaces, for example using Chinese lanterns and takeaway food containers to entice Oxypoda nigrocincta, Clambus apllidulus and Cossonus linearis during a beetle survey undertaken with the London Wildlife Trust in Hounslow in 1998.