Paul Gustav Eduard Speiser
Encyclopedia
Paul Gustav Eduard Speiser (1877 – 1945) was a German
entomologist who specialised in Diptera
.
He was first a physician
then a Medizinalrat, a medical adviser to a district.He worked on world Diptera, especially
Nycteribiidae
and was an eminent medical entomologist
.
corologica. Centralblatt Bact. Parasit und Infektioskrankheiten 28:297-402.
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 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...
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He was first a physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
then a Medizinalrat, a medical adviser to a district.He worked on world Diptera, especially
Nycteribiidae
Nycteribiidae
Nycteribiidae of the true fly superfamily Hippoboscoidea are known as "bat flies", together with their close relatives the Streblidae. As the latter do not seem to be a monophyletic group, it is conceivable to unite all bat flies in a single family....
and was an eminent medical entomologist
Medical entomology
The discipline of medical entomology, or public health entomology, and also veterinary entomology is focused upon insects and arthropods that impact human health. Veterinary entomology is included in this category, because many animal diseases can "jump species" and become a human health threat,...
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Works
Partial list- 1900. Venti Specie di Zanzare(Culicidae)Italiane Classate e Descritte e Indicate Secondo la Loro Distribuzione
- 1901. Ueber die Nycteribiiden, Fledermausparasiten aus derGruppe der pupiparen Dipteren. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 66:31–70.
corologica. Centralblatt Bact. Parasit und Infektioskrankheiten 28:297-402.
- 1902. Studien Uber Diptera Pupipara. Z. Syst. Hym. Dipt. 2: 145-180.
- 1902. Diptera (Supplement). Diptera Pupipara. Fauna Hawaiiensis 3(2): 86-92.
- 1908. Dipteren aus Deutschlands afrikanischen Kolonien. Berl. Ent. Z. 52: 127-149.
- 1910. Orthorhapha. Orthorhapha Brachycera. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umbgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Diptera. P. Palmquists. 2. 65-112.
- 1923. Aethiopische Dipteren. Weiner Entomologische Zeitung. 40. 81-99
- 1904. Zur nomenclatur blutsaugender Dipteren Amerikas.InsektenborseInsekten-BörseInsektenbörse was a German entomology magazine established in 1884. It was renamed Entomologisches Wochenblatt in 1907-1908 and renamed again Entomologische Rundschau in 1909-1939. Beginning with volume 26 the journal was published by Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany...
21:148. - 1907. Check-list of North American Diptera Pupipara.Entomological News 18: 103–105.Speiser. P. 1908. Die geographische Verbreitung der Diptera pupiparaund ihre Phylogenie. Zeitschrift für WissenschaflicheInsektenbiologie 4: 437–447