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'''Hem Singh Pruthi''' (23 February 1897 – 23 December 1969) was an Indian entomologist who served as Imperial Entomologist, being the first native Indian in that position.<br />
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He was born at [[Begowala]], [[Sialkot]] where his father Dr Bhagat Singh Pruthi worked in the Police and Jail Hospital at [[Gujranwala]]. He studied locally and completed his MSc at the Government College in Lahore and joined [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]], where he was a Charles Abercrombie Smith Student and obtained a Ph.D. in 1924.<ref>{{cite book|page=98|title=Admissions to Peterhouse|author=Ansell, E.| publisher=Cambridge University Press| year=2015}}</ref> Pruthi received an Sc.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1943. He then became an assistant superintendent at the [[Zoological Survey of India]] at Calcutta. He worked mainly on the Hemiptera. He then joined the [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]] and became the Imperial Entomologist, succeeding [[Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher|T.B. Fletcher]] in 1934. In 1938 he founded the Entomological Society of India. Pruthi's work during this period was mainly on insects of economic importance. He was a plant protection advisor to the Government of India and helped establish a locust warning system. He retired in 1953.<ref>{{cite journal|author= Lal, K. B. |year=1954|title= Dr. Hem Singh Pruthi| journal= Current Science |volume=23|issue=1|page= 5 |url=https://wwwops.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_023_01_0005_0005_0.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510115054/http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_023_01_0005_0005_0.pdf|archive-date=2018-05-10 }}</ref> In 1963 he published a ''Textbook of Agricultural Entomology''.<br />
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A number of [[Genus|genera]] of hemipterans have been named after him including ''[[Pruthiana]]'', ''[[Pruthiorosius]]'', and ''[[Pruthius]]''. His student [[Mahadeva Subramania Mani|M.S. Mani]] named a fly genus ''Pruthidiplosis'' after him.<br />
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A species of Indian lizard, ''[[Subdoluseps pruthi]]'', is named after him.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Pruthi", p. 212).</ref><br />
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==External links ==<br />
*[http://www.insaindia.res.in/detail/F00-0575 INSA Fellows]<br />
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