Hermann Dewitz was a German

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 who specialized 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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He was "Custos" or Curator of the Department of Entomology at the Museum für Naturkunde
in Berlin. Dewitz was interested in world butterflies especially those of South America

South America

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West and Central Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

and in 1882 he published Beschreibungen von Jugendstadien exotischer Lepidopteren(Nova acta Leopoldina Bd .44, Nr. 2. Halle - E. Blockmann & Sohn), a work on the early stages of Lepidoptera..

He also wrote a number of scientific papers on a wide variety of entomological subjects, notably a series of articles on the motion of insects on smooth vertical surfaces.

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