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Donald Henry Colless
Donald Henry Colless (24 August 1922 – 16 February 2012), also known as Vale Don Colless or simply Don Colless, was an Australian entomologist. He was an authority on true flies (Diptera).
==Career==
Colless was born in Uralla, a small town in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. In 1947, he graduated to Bachelor of Agricultural Science at the University of Sydney. In the same year he joined the CSIRO for which he worked in North Borneo (now Sabah) from 1947 to 1952. Subsequently he worked for eight years at the University of Malaya in Singapore where he promoted to Ph.D. in 1956. During that time he conducted mosquito research with a special focus on actual and potential disease vectors.
In 1960 he returned to the CSIRO where worked as taxonomist at the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) until he retired in 1987. From 1971 to 1977 he was the chief curator of the ANIC.
Colless described the two fly families Perissommatidae and Axiniidae, 13 new genera, including ''Valeseguya'', ''Perissomma'', ''Colonomyia'', and ''Chetoneura'' as well as 120 new species.
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