Julius Röber
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Julius Röber was a German
entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
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Röber lived in Dresden
.He described many new species and genera (taxa).
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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Röber lived in Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
.He described many new species and genera (taxa).
Works
- Parts of Staudinger, O.Otto StaudingerOtto Staudinger was a German entomologist and a natural history dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of insects to museums, scientific institutions, and individuals....
, and Schatz, EErnst SchatzErnst Schatz was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.He wrote with Otto Staudinger , Exotische Schmetterlinge in 1888. His collection of exotic butterflies and moths is held by the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin....
. (Eds.) (1884–1892): Exotische Schmetterlinge.Particularly important is Die Familien und Gattungen in volume 2 and Rober completed part 6 which "illustrates the neuration (wing venation)Lepidoptera morphologyThe external morphology of Lepidoptera is the physiological structure of the bodies of insects belonging to the order Lepidoptera, also known as butterflies and moths. Lepidoptera are distinguished from other orders principally by the presence of scales on the external parts of the body and...
of nearly five hundred different butterflies, representing almost as many genera and accompanied by some rude details of the structure of the legs, palpi, and antennae, are depicted on the fifty folio plates, while the text (284 pp.) describes the families, lower groups and genera with a statement of the number of species in each" Psyche,June 1892. - 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 (1912).