Johann Nepomuk Georg Egger (15 May 1804, in

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– 19 March 1866, in

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), was an

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n entomologist who specialised in Diptera. Egger was a

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in Vienna. Egger wrote only one scientific papers but this is an important reference. His collection is conserved in

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in Vienna.

Works

*Egger, J. (1856). Neue Dipteren-Gattungen und Arten aus der Familie der Tachinarien und Dexiarien nebst einigen andern dipterologischen ''Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien'' 6: 383-392 *Egger, J. (1858). "Dipterologische Beiträge". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 8: 701–716.

References

*Nonveiller, G. 1999: The Pioneers of the research on the Insects of Dalmatia. - Zagreb, Hrvatski Pridodoslovni Muzej : 1-390 *Schiner, J. R. 1867: gger, J. ''Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Sitzungsber., Wien'' 17 531-540, Portrai
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