On March 25, 2005 (February 16, 2005 in the lunar calendar), Pang Xiongfei, an China entomologist and ecologist, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, passed away. Pang Xiongfei (1930-2004), academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, born in 1930, was born in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, and a member of the Communist Party of China. Pang Xiongfei graduated from the School of Agriculture of Sun Yat-sen University in 1953 and was admitted to graduate school in the same year. In 1955, he was selected and sent to the Graduate School of Dimiliatev Agricultural College in Moscow, the Soviet Union for further study, and received an associate doctorate in 1959. After returning to China, he served as director of the Entomology Teaching and Research Section, director of the Insect Ecology Research Section, deputy director of the Department of Plant Protection, director of the Key Open Laboratory of Insect Ecology and Toxicology of the Ministry of Agriculture, and vice president of South China Agricultural University. positions. The textbooks he edited and participated in include: "Insect Community Ecology","General Introduction to Entomology","Biological Control of Pests", and "Agricultural Entomology". He founded the Insect Ecology Research Laboratory and presided over many major national, provincial and ministerial research projects. Based on the concept of species, he reorganized the classification system of Coccinellidae and sorted out nearly 700 species of ladybugs distributed in China and its adjacent areas. Nearly 700 species of ladybugs have been published, and a new subfamily has been established. In addition, 12 new species of the genera Trichogramma and Chlamydia have also been published. He founded the Shenzhen Longgang Ecological Agriculture Demonstration Base, which integrates teaching, scientific research and scientific and technological demonstration. It has made important contributions to the establishment of the entomology discipline of South China Agricultural University as a national key discipline and the construction of the key laboratory of insect ecology and toxicology of the Ministry of Agriculture. Monographs include: "Systematic Control of Pest Populations" and "Economic Insects in China (2) Coccinellidae"; co-authored and published monographs include: "Application of System Science in Plant Protection Research","Economic Insect. Chalcidoidea of China","Atlas of Natural Enemies of Rice Pests","Collection of Papers of the National Coccinellidae Symposium", etc. He has won many national, provincial and ministerial science and technology awards. He is a national-level young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions, a national advanced scientific and technological worker, a well-known Kunming scientist, and an ecologist.