Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (5 May 1775, in

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– 3 February 1856, in Berlin), 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 ...

. He described the

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

and some other insects of

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and

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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. Ehrenberg was an evangelist and was considered to be of the most famous and productive scie ...

and

Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich (24 June 1796 – 30 June 1825) was a German naturalist and explorer. Hemprich was born in Glatz (Kłodzko), Prussian Silesia, and studied medicine at Breslau and Berlin. It was in Berlin that he became friends with ...

's ''Symbolæ Physicæ'' (Berlin, 1829–1845). He was professor of

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and entomology in the University of Berlin (known in the present day as the

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) where he curated the insect collections from 1810 to 1856. At the same time he directed the Botanic Garden in Berlin which contains his collections. Klug worked mainly on

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

and

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. The plant genus '' Klugia'' (now called '' Rhynchoglossum'', Family

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) was named in his honour as well as the butterflies ''

Geitoneura klugii ''Geitoneura klugii'', the common xenica or Klug's xenica, is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae.Heliophisma klugii''. In 1855, he was elected a foreign member of the

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Works

(Partial List) * Die Blattwespen nach ihren Gattungen und Arten zusammengestellt. ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 6: 45–62, 276–310 (1814). * ''Entomologische Monographieen''. Berlin. p. 172–196 (1824). *Insecta. in: Ehrenberg, C.G. ''Symbolae Physicae, seu icones et descriptiones corporum naturalium novarum aut minus cognitorum'' (1829–1845) *Berich über eine auf Madagascar veranstaltete Sammlung von Insecten aus der Ordnung Coleoptera. ''Abhandlungen der Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften'', pp. 91–223 (1833). *Uebersicht der Tenthredinetae der Sammlung (des Berliner entomologischen Museums). ''Jahrbücher der Insektenkunde'' 1: 233–253 (1834). *With

Carl Heinrich Hopffer Carl Heinrich Hopffer (1810–1876) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Hopffer was a curator (Custos) at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He described many new species mainly in the following works. *''Neue Schmetterl ...

and illustrated by Bernhard Wienker and ''Neue Schmetterlinge der Insekten-Sammlung des Königl. Zoologischen Musei der Universität zu Berlin'' Hft. (Volume) 1 – 2 Berlin : Bei dem Herausgebe
BHL
(1836) *Fortsetzung der Diagnosen der neuen (und bereits seit mehreren Monaten vollständig gedruckten) Coleopteren, welche die Insectensendungen des Herrn Dr. Peters von Mossambique enthalten hatten, von der Familie der Staphylinii an bis zu den Lamelicornia, diese mit eingeschlossen.''Berichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin'' 20: 643–660 (1855) *Ueber die Geschlechtsverschiedenheit der Piezaten. Erster Haelfte der Fabriciusschen Gattungen. ''Mag. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin'' 1: 68–80. (1807)

References

*Evenhuis, N. L. 1997: ''Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum'' (1758–1930). Volume 1 (A-K) * Gerstaecker, C.E.A., 1856: lug, J. C. F. ''Ent. Ztg''. tettin17:225 *Henriksen, K. L. 1923: iographien''Ent. Meddel''. 15(3):139 {{DEFAULTSORT:Klug, Johann Christoph Friedrich Coleopterists Hymenopterists German lepidopterists 1775 births 1856 deaths Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Humboldt University of Berlin faculty 18th-century German scientists 19th-century German scientists