Biography
Luis Quinche Luis María Murillo Quinche (May 24, 1896 – September 6, 1974) was a Colombian entomologist. He was a pioneer of agricultural entomology in Colombia, introducing systematic entomology and biological control. Quinche was born in Guasca, Cundinamarca, and studied at the Salesian College of Leo XIII and received a degree in 1917. His teachers included Santiago Cortés, Apolinar María and Ricardo Lleras Codazzi. He studied botany from the works of Andrés Posada Arango, Joaquín Antonio Uribe and Francisco Vergara and Velasco. He taught himself about insects and promoted biological pest control. In 1924 he wrote on wasps. He joined the ministry of industries in 1927 and was posted to the plant health office to study pests affecting coffee and soon became the head of entomology service. He examined...
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