Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren (8 June 1823 – 25 October 1894) was a
Swedish
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clergyman and
entomologist
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.
Biography
He was born in
Lund
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, Sweden.
Wallengren became a student at
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion Farhult and
Jonstorp
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Jonstorp located at Skälder Bay
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parishes. He undertook zoological studies with trips to
Gotland
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and to
Bohemia
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and
Silesia
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, He also visited the museums in
Braunschweig
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,
Berlin
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and
Copenhagen
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. Wallengren was responsible for studying and naming the butterflies collected by naturalist and explorer
Johan August Wahlberg
Johan August Wahlberg (9 October 1810, in Lackarebäck, Sweden – 6 March 1856, in Lake Ngami, Bechuanaland) was a Swedish naturalist and explorer.
Wahlberg started studying chemistry at the University of Uppsala in 1829, and later forestry, a ...
(1810–1856) at Kafferland (now
Cape Province
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in South Africa).
Selected works
*''Lepidoptera Scandinavioæ Rhopalocera'' (1853)
*''Skandinaviens Heterocerfjärilar'': I. ''Closterocera'' (1863), II. Spinnarna (1869–85)
*''Coleophorer'' (1859)
*''Fjädermott'' (1860)
*''Lepidoptera nova'' (1861 i "Fregatten Eugenies resa omkring jorden 1851–53")
*''Lepidoptera rhopalocera in terra Caffrorum collecta'' (1857)
*''Heterocerfjärilar, samlade i kafferlandet af J.A. Wahlberg, Index specierum, Noctuarum et Geometrarum in Scandinavia hucusque detectarum'' (1874)
*''Species Tortricum et Tinearum Scandinaviæ'' (1875)