August Arthur Petry (1858, Tilleda - 1932 Nordhausen) was a German botanist and entomologist specialising in Microlepidoptera. [1] He was a teacher of philology at the Gymnasium in Nordhausen. August Petry was a Member of the Stettin Entomological Society. Ottmar Hofmann honoured his name in Caryocolum petryi . His collections are, in part, held by the Natural History Museum of Erfurt.
The standard author abbreviation Petry is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [2]
Philipp Christoph Zeller was a German entomologist.
Friedrich Hermann Loew was a German entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges. He described many world species and was the first specialist to work on the Diptera of the United States.
Otto Staudinger was a German entomologist and a natural history dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of insects to museums, scientific institutions, and individuals.
Ernst Friedrich Germar was a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle. As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera. He wrote monographs on several insect families including the Scutelleridae. He also took an interest in paleoentomology.
Johann August Ephraim Goeze was a German zoologist, born in Aschersleben. He is known for the discovery of tardigrades, also called water bears. He was the son of Johann Heinrich and Catherine Margarete. He studied theology at University of Halle. He married Leopoldine Maria Keller in 1770, by whom he had four children. In 1751, he became a pastor in Aschersleben, in Quedlinburg, and later of St. Blasius' Church in Quedlinburg in 1762, finally becoming first deacon of the seminary of Quedlinburg in 1787. He died in Quedlinburg.
Heinrich Benno Möschler was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
Julius Moser was a German entomologist who specialised in beetles.
Gustav Weymer (1833–1914) was a German entomologist. He described many new taxa of butterflies from specimens collected by Alphons Stübel in South America.
Carl Heinrich Hopffer (1810–1876) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
Friedrich Otto Gustav Quedenfeldt was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
August Ahrens was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
Adolph Schenck was a German entomologist and teacher.
Carl Heinrich Reutti was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He wrote (1853) Lepidopteren-Fauna Badens.Beiträge zur Rheinischen Naturgeschichte 3_3: 1-216 pdf in which he described Epichnopterix sieboldii. Other works are
August Fuchs was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He wrote Kleinschmetterlinge der Loreley-Gegend Stettin ent. Ztg. 56 (1-6) : 21-52 (1895) in which he first described Capperia loranus and Über die neuesten Lepidopterologischen Forschungen in der Loreley-Gegend Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 52: 159 - 173 (1899). His collection of Palearctic lepidoptera is in Museum Wiesbaden
Friedrich Otto Büttner was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He wrote the original description of Stenoptilia pneumonanthes in Die Pommerschen, insbesondere die Stettiner Microlepidoptern. Entomologische Zeitung 41: 383–473. Stettin. (1880).Friedrich Büttner was a Member of the Stettin Entomological Society. By profession he was a teacher.
Franz Pfaffenzeller was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera especially the Microlepidoptera of the Alps. His collections are held by the Natural History Museum, Berlin
Georg Adolf Keferstein was a German lawyer and entomologist.
Karl, or Carl, August Teich was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera especially of the Baltic region. He described Caryocolum crepusculella, Gelechia bergiella and Gelechia farinosa among others. Fragments of his microlepidoptera collections are held by the Latvian Museum of Natural History. The bulk did not survive.
TheodosiusGottlieb von Scheven was a pastor and German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera.
Eduard Voss was a German entomologist, who specialized in beetles (Coleoptera), in particular the weevil family (Curculionidae). He described many new species and a number of beetles are named after him. Much of his beetle collection was lost in World War II, but some of the remaining collection is held in the Zoologischs Museum Hamburg.
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