Otto Kröber 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  specialising in Diptera

Diptera

Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...

. He worked mainly on Tabanidae, Omphralidae, Therevidae

Therevidae

Therevidae are a family of Diptera Asiloidea commonly known as stiletto flies. The family contains about 1,600 described species worldwide, most diverse in arid and semi-arid regions with sandy soils...

 and Conopidae

Conopidae

Conopidae, usually known as the thick-headed flies, is a family of flies within the Brachycera suborder of Diptera. Flies of the family Conopidae are distributed worldwide except for the poles and many of the Pacific islands. About 800 species in 47 genera are described worldwide, approximately 70...

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Kröber was a professor in the Zoological Museum in Hamburg (now Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universitat von Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/zim/entomol/forsch.html

Works

Selected

• Die Thereviden Süd und Mittelamerikas. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 9, 475-529 ( 1911)
• Die Thereviden der indo-australischen Region. ( 1912)
• Therevidae.Genera.Ins. (1913).
• Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Thereviden und Omphraliden. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, (1913) 31, 29-74.(1914).
• Therevidae. Fliegen palaerakt.Reg.ed. Erwin Lindner 4 (26):1-60 (1924-1925).
• Neue und wenig bekannte Dipteren aus den Familien Omphralidae, Conopidae, und Therevidae. Konowia Zeitschrift für *Systematische Insektenkunde, 7, 113-134 ( 1928).
• The Therevidae (Diptera) of South Africa. Ann. Transv. Mus.. 14:103-134 (1931).

Collections

National Museum of Natural History

National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. Admission is free and the museum is open 364 days a year....

 via J. M. Aldrich Washington; Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...

 via J. Surcouf and Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden

Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden

The State Museum of Zoology in Dresden is a natural history museum that houses 10,000-50,000 specimens, including skeletons and large insect collections. Many are types. The collection suffered war damage and whilst catalogued the database is not computerized. Loans are possible and material can...