Carl Friedrich August Alexander Crüger
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Carl Friedrich August Alexander Crüger (26 February 1813, Fürstenberg
- 21 May 1885, Hamburg
) was a German
entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
.
His collection of world Lepidoptera is in the Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/zim/.
Fürstenberg
Fürstenberg and can refer to the following.- Historical states :* Fürstenberg , county * Fürstenberg-Baar, county * Fürstenberg-Blumberg, county...
- 21 May 1885, Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
) was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...
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His collection of world Lepidoptera is in the Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/zim/.
Works
- 1876 Ueber Schmetterlinge von Guayaquil. Verhandlungen des Vereins für naturwissenschaftliche Unterhaltung zu Hamburg 2: 129-131.
- with J. B. Capronnier 1876 Notice sur les époques d'apparition des lépidoptères du Brésil recueillis p. M. C. Van Volxem dans son voyage en 1872. Annales de la soc.entom. de Belgique Tom. XVII., 1874. p. 5-39.
- Verhandlungen des Vereins für naturwissenschaftliche Unterhaltung zu Hamburg 2: 132-135. [review]
- 1879. Ueber exotische Lepidopteren (1877). Verhandlungen des Vereins für naturwissenschaftliche Unterhaltung zu Hamburg 4: 192-198.
- 1881. Catalogue of the coll. of diurnal lepidoptera formed by the late William Chapman HewitsonWilliam Chapman HewitsonWilliam Chapman Hewitson was a British naturalist, born on 9 January 1806 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and died on 28 May 1878. A wealthy collector, this naturalist was particularly devoted to the Coleoptera and the Lepidoptera and, also, to bird's nests and eggs...
, of Oatlands, Walton on Thames, and beqeathed by him to the B. M.; By W. F.Kirby, assistant naturalist in the Dublin mus. of Science and art (printed for private circulation). London J. v.Voorst, 1879, 4o, 246 ps. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift 25(2): 105-118 (December) [general; review] - 1882. Exotische Lepidopteren. Verhandlungen des Vereins für naturwissenschaftliche Unterhaltung zu Hamburg 5(6):85
- 1878. Ueber Schmetterlinge von Wladiwostok. Verh. Ver. naturw. Unterhalt. Hamburg 3: 128-133.includes description of LuehdorfiaLuehdorfiaLuehdorfia is a genus of butterfly in the Papilionidae family.It contains the following species:* Luehdorfia chinensis – Chinese Luehdorfia* Luehdorfia japonica – Japanese Luehdorfia* Luehdorfia puziloi* Luehdorfia taibai...