Gustav Heinrich Heydenreich (-,

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- 18 May 1897) was a

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. Gustav Heinrich Heydenreich specialised in

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. His collection is conserved in

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. He wrote ''Lepidopterorum Europaerum Catalogus methodicus'', published in

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in 1851, in which he described new species.

References

*Anon., 1897 eydenreich, G. H. ''Leopoldina'' 33 113 *Anon., 1897 eydenreich, G. H.''Misc. Entomol., Narbonne'' 5 : 134 *Redlich, 1897 eydenreich, G. H. ''Ent. Z., Frankfurt a. M'' 11 38 {{DEFAULTSORT:Heydenreich, Gustav Heinrich German entomologists 1897 deaths