Helmuth Holzinger (May 15, 1928 – October 1, 1992) was an

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entomologist. He was born in

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and died there., In 1953, he married Ruth Raffael, a painter, who painted all plates of his monograph. In 1972, he became editor of the ''Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der österreichischen Entomologen'', where nearly all his publications would be published. Holzinger specialized in the study of ''

Heliconius ''Heliconius'' comprises a colorful and widespread genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly known as the longwings or heliconians. This genus is distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the New World, from South America ...

'' and became a world-renowned specialist publishing his works mainly in German but also in English. After his death, his huge monograph on the genus ''Heliconius'' was published by

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. His collection of about 2900 specimens is now at

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, Vienna.Gaal (Sabine), Keber (Astrid), Lödl (Martin), 1997. Holzinger ''Heliconius'' collection to Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Austria. ''Tropical Lepidoptera'', 8(1): 47-48

Species named after Holzinger

* ''Bothriocera holzingeri'' O'Brien 2006 * ''Heliconius numata holzingeri'' K. Brown & Fernández Yepez, 1976 * ''Phaeostigma holzingeri'' Rausch & Aspock, 1993

List of taxa described

Holzinger never described a

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alone, his name was nearly always associated with his wife's. * ''Eueides eanes koenigi'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1992 * ''Eueides tales franciscus'' Brown & Holzinger, 1973 * ''Heliconius c. c. f. tenebrosa'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 * ''Heliconius c. g. f. flavissima'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 * ''Heliconius c. g. f. gerstneri'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 * ''Heliconius c. g. f. pseudoweymeri'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 * ''Heliconius c. gerstneri f. denhezi'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 * ''Heliconius cydno cydnides f. semicydnides'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 * ''Heliconius demeter ucayalensis'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1975 * ''Heliconius hecuba creusa'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1989 * ''Heliconius xanthocles cleoxanthe'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1971 * ''Heliconius xanthocles hippocrene'' Holzinger & Brown, 1982 * ''Heliconius xanthocles napoensis'' Holzinger & Brown, 1982 * ''Heliconius xanthocles rindgei'' Holzinger & Brown, 1982 * ''Heliconius xanthocles zamora'' Holzinger & Brown, 1982 * ''Zygaena'' (''Mesembrynus'') ''cynarae picena'' Holzinger & Holzinger, 1979

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holzinger, Helmuth 1928 births 1992 deaths Austrian lepidopterists Scientists from Vienna 20th-century Austrian zoologists