Hans Fruhstorfer

Hans Fruhstorfer ( born March 7, 1866 in Passau, † April 9, 1922 in Munich) was a German entomologist, insect trader and traveler who specialized in butterflies. He described many new species and subspecies in short and superficial descriptions that contained many errors. The bulk of his collection went to after his death, the Natural History Museum.

A few years before the end of his life he dealt with locusts in Central Europe and has written about the work of the Orthoptera of Switzerland and the neighboring countries ... in which he described many new species. Of the 31 taxa that he described, using current state only 12 valid.

Fruhstorfer died on April 9, 1922 after a failed cancer surgery.

Works (excerpt)

  • Directory of data collected by me in Tonkin, Annam and Siam nymphalid and meeting related forms, Vienna. ent Ztg 25:307-362, (1906 )
  • Family Pieridae in Seitz ' Macrolepidoptera Earth 9:119-190, Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart. (1910 )
  • Family Lycaenidae in Seitz ' Macrolepidoptera Earth 9:803-901, (part ) Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart. (1915-1924)
  • The Orthoptera of Switzerland and the neighboring countries at both geographical and ecological basis with consideration of the fossil species, Archives of Natural History, 87 (4-6): 1-262. ( 1921)
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