August Arthur Petry (1858,

Tilleda Tilleda is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2009, it has been part of the town Kelbra. Tilleda is located at the northern rim of the Kyffhäuser mountain rang ...

- 1932

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) was a

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botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

specialising in

Microlepidoptera Microlepidoptera (micromoths) is an artificial (i.e., unranked and not monophyletic) grouping of moth families, commonly known as the 'smaller moths' (micro, Lepidoptera). These generally have wingspans of under 20 mm, and are thus harder to ...

. He was a teacher of

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at the Gymasium in Nordhausen. August Petry was a Member of the

Stettin Entomological Society The Entomological Society of Stettin (german: Entomologischer Verein zu Stettin) or Stettin Entomological Society, based in Stettin (Szczecin), was one of the leading entomological societies of the 19th century. Most German entomologists were membe ...

Ottmar Hofmann Ottmar Hofmann (20 September 1835, in Frankfurt am Main – 22 February 1900, in Regensburg) was a German entomologist. He is not to be confused with Ernst Hofmann, also an entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. Ottmar Hofmann was a physician ...

honoured his name in '' Caryocolum petryi''. His collections are, in part, held by the Natural History Museum of Erfurt.

Works

*Petry, A., (1889) ''Die Vegetationsverhältnisse des

Kyffhäuser The Kyffhäuser (,''Duden - Das Aussprachewörterbuch, 7. Auflage (German)'', Dudenverlag, sometimes also referred to as ''Kyffhäusergebirge'', is a hill range in Central Germany, shared by Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, southeast of the Harz mou ...

Gebirges'' Halle a.S. Tausch & Grosse 1889 (Dissertation: Zugl.: Halle-Wittenberg, Univ., Diss., 1889) *Petry, A., (1904) Beschreibung neuer Microlepidopteren aus Korsika. ''Entomologische Zeitung, Stettin'' 65(): 242–254. *Petry, A. (1904) Zur Naturgeschichte der '' Lita nitentella'' Fuchs ''Entomologische Zeitung Stettin'' 65: 176 - 179. *Petry, A. (1912) Ueber die deutschen an ''

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'' lebenden Arten der Gattung ''

Bucculatrix Bucculatricidae or (Bucculatrigidae) is a family of moths. This small family has representatives in all parts of the world. Some authors place the group as a subfamily of the family Lyonetiidae. Adults of this family are easily overlooked, being ...

'' Z. nebst Beschreibung einer neuen Art. ''Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift'' Iris 26 (2): 111-115. Dresden *''Beiträge zur Fauna Thüringens'' Erfurt; Krefeld Goecke (1936). 2 Microlepidoptera, Kleinschmetterlinge. with Curt Beer, Ernst Hockemeyera and Otto Rapp *Petry, A. (1936) ''Beitrag zur Schmetterlingsfauna des Harzes'' Erfurt, Zu erhalten durch den Bearbeiter with Otto Rapp

References

*Groll, E. K. 2017: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World. – Online database, version 8, Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg – URL: sdei.senckenberg.de/biografies
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Petry, August Arthur 19th-century German botanists German lepidopterists 1932 deaths 1858 births 20th-century German botanists People from Mansfeld-Südharz