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Arctia Kolpakofskii
''Arctia kolpakofskii'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Sergei Alphéraky in 1882. It is found in eastern Tien Shan in Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ..., China.[] This species was formerly a member of the genus ''Acerbia'', but was moved to ''Arctia'' along with the other species of the genera ''Acerbia'', ''Pararctia'', ''Parasemia'', ''Platarctia'', and ''Platyprepia''. External links Moths described in 1882 Arctiina Moths of Asia Taxa named by Sergei Alphéraky {{Arctiina-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Alphéraky
Sergei Nikolaevich Alphéraky (1850–1918) (sometimes Alphéraki or Alferaki) was a Russian ornithologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Sergei Alphéraky was born into the noble Greek family of Alferakis and was the brother of composer Achilles Alferaki. His father Nikos Alferakis owned the Alferaki Palace in Taganrog. Sergei studied at Moscow University (1867–1869), then with Otto Staudinger in Dresden (1871–1873). On his return to Russia he worked on the Lepidoptera of the Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don region. He also collected in the North Caucasus. After that he devoted himself to the insects, especially Lepidoptera, of Central Asia. He worked on the Lepidoptera collected by Nikolai Przhevalsky in Tibet held by the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science and those collected by Grigorij Nikolaevich Potanin in China and Mongolia in the same institution. Later he studied the collections made by Alfred Otto Herz in Amur, Korea and Kamchatka, and thos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
