August Emil Algot Holmgren (10 November 1829 – 30 December 1888) was a
Swedish
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entomologist
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mainly interested in the
Hymenoptera
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, especially
Ichneumonidae
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.
He was professor in the Forstakademie in Stockholm.
Holmgren was the author of:
*''Hymenoptera, species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies resa omkring Jordeni under befäl af C.A. Virgen Aren'' 1851–53. II Zoologi 1 Insecta pp. 391-442 pl. viii. (1868).
*''Bidrag till kännedomen om Beeren eilands och Spetsbegrens insekt-fauna''. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & söner (1869).
*''Skandinaviens foglar'' (Birds of Sweden) in Handbok i zoologi för landtbrukare, skogshushållare, fiskeriidkare och jägare P.A. Norstedt & söner, Stockholm (1866).
1829 births
1888 deaths
Swedish entomologists
Swedish ornithologists
Hymenopterists
19th-century Swedish zoologists
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