Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt (10 November 1862 in
Striegau – 26 May 1936) was a German
entomologist specialising in
Lepidoptera. Niepelt was an insect dealer in
Zirlau (located near
Świebodzice
Świebodzice (; szl, Frybork; german: Freiburg) is a town in south-western Poland with 22,793 inhabitants (). It is situated in Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship (from 1975–1998 it was in the former Wałbrzych Voivodeship).
T ...
). He is commemorated with insects having the specific epithet of ''niepeltiana'', an example being ''
Phragmatobia niepeltiana'', a
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
species circumscribed by
Embrik Strand
Embrik Strand (2 June 1876 – 3 November 1947) was an entomologist and arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species including the greenbottle blue tarantula.
Life and career
Strand was born in Ål, Norway. He studied at t ...
in 1919.
Publications
Very partial list (examples)
*Neue südamerikanische Papilionen - ''Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift'' 52(4), pp.
08- 210, 2 figs.(1907)
*Neue paläarktische Macrolepidopteren. ''Int. Ent. Ztg''., Bd. 5, No. 58, S. 274-275 (1911).
*parts of 'Lepidoptera Niepeltiana'. (By E. Strand.) Vol. 1.(1914).
*Ein neuer
Papilio
''Papilio'' is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae, as well as the only representative of the tribe Papilionini. The word ''papilio'' is Latin for butterfly.
It includes the common yellow swallowtail (''Papilio machaon''), ...
von Halmaheira. ''Znt. Entomol. Z.'' 18, 69-70 (1924).
*Neue exotische Rhopaloceren. Internat. ''Entomol. Zeitschr.'' 21(7): 49-53 (1927).
*Neue papuanische Papilio (
Troides)- Formen. ''Int. Entomol. Z.'' 28(7): 69-72 (1934).
His collection is in the
Museum of Natural History Wroclaw University
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
.
Biol.uni Wroclaw
Contents
References
*Horn, Walther (H. R.), 1936 iepelt, F. W.''Arb. morph. taxon. Ent. Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin'' 3 (4):300
*Strand, E., 1938 ''Festschrift''. Riga
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German lepidopterists
1862 births
1936 deaths