Alfred Nalepa (19 December 1856, in Werschetz – 11 December 1929, in Baden bei Wien) was an Austrian

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

specializing in the field of

acarology Acarology (from Ancient Greek /, , a type of mite; and , ) is the study of mites and ticks, the animals in the order Acarina. It is a subfield of arachnology, a subdiscipline of the field of zoology. A zoologist specializing in acarology is cal ...

. He studied

natural sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

, and from 1886 was associated with the ''Lehrerbildungsanstalt'' in

Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...

. In 1892 he returned to

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

, where he was appointed professor of natural history at the ''Elisabethgymnasium''. He described many species in the field of

, and was the

taxonomic authority In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

of the

gall mite Eriophyidae is a family of more than 200 genera of mites, which live as plant parasites, commonly causing galls or other damage to the plant tissues and hence known as gall mites. About 3,600 species have been described, but this is probably ...

family, Eriophyidae.

Principal works

* ''Beiträge zur Systematik der Phytopten'', 1889 - Contribution to the

systematics Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: cladograms, phylogenetic tre ...

of Phytoptidae. * ''Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Phyllocoptiden'', 1894 - Contribution to the knowledge of '' Phyllocoptes''. * ''Die Naturgeschichte der Gallmilben'', 1894 - Natural history of gall mites. *
Eriophyidae (Phytoptidae)
', 1898. * ''Eriophyiden-Gallenmilben'', 1911 - Eriophyidae-gall mites.WorldCat Search
(publications)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nalepa, Alfred 1856 births 1929 deaths University of Vienna alumni Austrian zoologists People from Vršac Banat Swabians