Cyrus R. Crosby

{{short description|American entomologist}}

Cyrus Richard Crosby (1879–1937) was an entomologist and arachnologist who taught at Cornell University.[http://essigdb.berkeley.edu/cgi/eme_people_query?table=eme_people&one=T&name_full=Cyrus+R.+Crosby Essig Museum of Entomology People] Along with Sherman C. Bishop he gave the scientific name to the Spruce-fir moss spider. Crosbycus, a genus of harvestmen in the family Ceratolasmatidae is also named for him.{{cite book

|title=Harvestmen

|author1=Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha |author2=Glauco Machado |author3=Gonzalo Giribet |year=2007

|publisher=Harvard University Press

|isbn=978-0-674-02343-7

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_io_gc_1-sC&q=%22cyrus+r.+crosby%22&pg=RA4-PA141

}}