Gustav Weymer
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Gustav Weymer was a German
entomologist.
He described many new taxa of butterflies from specimens collected by Alphons Stübel
in South America
.
His own collections and those he worked on are conserved in Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and Naturkundemuseum Leipzig
.
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
entomologist.
He described many new taxa of butterflies from specimens collected by Alphons Stübel
Alphons Stübel
Moritz Alphons Stübel was a German geologist and vulcanologist who was a native of Leipzig.He studied chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Leipzig. With geologist Wilhelm Reiss , he conducted geological and volcanological research in the Andes from 1868 to 1874...
in South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
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His own collections and those he worked on are conserved in Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and Naturkundemuseum Leipzig
Naturkundemuseum Leipzig
Naturkundemuseum Leipzig is a natural history museum in Leipzig, Germany. The museum contains the insect collection of Alexander Julius Reichert.-External links:*...
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Works
- Weymer, G and Maassen P. J. 1890. Lepidopteren gesammelt auf einer Reise durch Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Brasilien, Argentinien und Bolivien in den Jahren 1868-1877 von Alphons Stübel. Berlin, A. Asher & Co. [1] , xi , 182 pp., 9 pls.
- Weymer, G. 1912. 4 Familie: Satyridae. In Seitz, A.Adalbert SeitzAdalbert Seitz was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.He was the editor of Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde . This is a sixteen volume work with four supplements published in German, French, and English. For details see Griffin, F. J....
(ed.): Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde,2, Exotische Fauna, 5, Stuttgart, A Kernen