Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt (10 November 1862 in
Striegau
Strzegom (german: Striegau) is a town in Åšwidnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the Gmina Strzegom administrative district (gmina). It lies approximately north-west of Åšwidnica, and west of th ...
– 26 May 1936) was a German
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
Lepidoptera
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. Niepelt was an insect dealer in
Zirlau (located near
Åšwiebodzice). He is commemorated with insects having the specific epithet of ''niepeltiana'', an example being ''
Phragmatobia niepeltiana
''Arctia seitzi'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Andreas Bang-Haas in 1910. It is found in central Asia, including Kazakhstan and Kirghizia
Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country ...
'', a
moth species circumscribed by
Embrik Strand 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 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.
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