Martha Wadsworth

Martha (Mattie) Wadsworth (1862-1943) was an amateur entomologist and one of the first women to publish in Entomological News. She had long-term correspondence with Philip P. Calvert, and the species Celithemis martha was named in her honor by Edward Bruce Williamson.

She lived in Rural Maine, and published a short paper in volume 1 of Entomological News in 1890 about the dragonflies of Manchester, Maine, subsequently publishing there 5 more times. She discovered a dragonfly, ‘’Celithemis martha’’, near her home, which was then named after her.