Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr, US-born Colombian entomologist and ornithologist (Sullivan, Illinois State 14 February 1879 – Bucamaranga 27 July 1965)
Recognized as a world authority on Neotropical genera of Mallophaga
DESCRIBED NEW TAXA
Mallophaga
Genera
Ardeiphagus 1949
Austrokelloggia 1936
Colinicola 1945
Corvicola 1949
Cotingacola 1956
Cracimenopon 1954
Cuclotocephalus 1936
Cuclotogaster 1936
Desumenopon 1954
Discocorpus 1936
Ditopos 1956
Docophorocotes 1936
Eiconolipeurus 1945
Epiara 1954
Epicolinus 1945
Epipectus 1966
Epipsittacus 1944
Formicaphagus 1957
Formicaricola 1957
Furnaricola 1944
Heptagoniodes 1936
Heptapsogaster 1936
Heptarthrogaster 1936
Heptasus 1936
Heterogoniodes 1936
Heterokodeia 1954
Heteromenopon 1954
Heteropeosteus 1944
Hirundiniella 1963
Hoazinia 1940
Hypocrypturellus 1940
Kelloggia 1903
Lamprocorpus 1936
Megaginus 1936
Megapeosteus 1936
Mimemamenopon 1958
Nirmocotes 1936
Nothocotus 1936
Ornicholax 1903
Passonomedea 1944
Pseudocophorus 1940
Pseudolipeurus 1936
Pseudophilopterus 1936
Psittacobrosus 1954
Ramphasticola 1949
Rhyncothura 1936
Sakoskida 1953
Tinamicola 1936
Tinamotaecola 1944
Trichodomedea 1945
Trichodopeosteus 1936
Trochiliphagus 1960
Tyrannicola 1956
Families (4 subfamilies)
Heptasogastridae 1936
Trochiliphagidae 1960
Species / Subespecies
866
Aves
Species
Anairetes alpinus 1933
Aulacorhynchus huallagae 1933
Cinclodes aricomae 1932
Grallaricula leymebambae 1933
Myiophobus inornatus 1932
Myrmotherula grisea 1935
Selasphorus simoni 1910
Sylviorthorhynchus yanacensis 1933
Syndactyla striata 1935
Subspecies
73
HONORS
Subg. Carrikeria Hopkins 1947 (Mallophaga)
Carrikerella Hebard 1921 (Orthoptera)