August Fuchs

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August Fuchs
August Fuchs Pfarrer Bornich Schmetterlingskundler.jpg
Born1839
Died1904 (age 64–65)
CitizenshipGermany
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology

August Fuchs (1839, Beruch, St. Gearshon – 1904, Bornich) 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

References

  • Groll, E. K. 2017: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World. – Online database, version 8, Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg – URL: sdei.senckenberg.de/biografies
  • Roth, W. 1929 Beitrag zur Geschichte der Insektensammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wiesbaden. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde. Wiesbaden., Wiesbaden 80, S. 47-50