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Oskar Scheibel (1881–1953) was an Austrian engineer and amateur
Scheibel was born in Austria in 1881 and little is known of his early life but he became a railway engineer in the Austro-Hungarian region where he took an interest in cave beetles. He collected many new species and described a few himself while other entomologists named some species in his honour based on specimens that he had collected. He sold his collections of about 15000 specimens in 1921 to Germany.
He is best remembered for naming in honour of
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 ...
who specialized in the beetles of the Yugoslavian region and specialized in cave beetles of the family Trechinae
Trechinae is a subfamily in the ground beetle family, Carabidae.
Genera
The subfamily includes the following genera:
* '' Accoella'' Uéno, 1990
* '' Acheroniotes'' Lohai & Lakota, 2010
* '' Adriaphaenops'' Noesske, 1928
* '' Aepiblemus'' Bel ...
. One of the most famous beetles that he described as new to science was the now endangered blind cave beetle that he named as ''Anophthalmus hitleri
''Anophthalmus hitleri'' ( sl, Hitlerjev brezokec) is a species of blind cave beetle found only in about fifteen humid caves in Slovenia. The blind cave beetle shares its genus with 41 other species and 95 different subspecies. Members of its sub ...
'' after Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
.
Biography
Scheibel was born in Austria in 1881 and little is known of his early life but he became a railway engineer in the Austro-Hungarian region where he took an interest in cave beetles. He collected many new species and described a few himself while other entomologists named some species in his honour based on specimens that he had collected. He sold his collections of about 15000 specimens in 1921 to Germany.
He is best remembered for naming in honour of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
the beetle species ''Anophthalmus hitleri
''Anophthalmus hitleri'' ( sl, Hitlerjev brezokec) is a species of blind cave beetle found only in about fifteen humid caves in Slovenia. The blind cave beetle shares its genus with 41 other species and 95 different subspecies. Members of its sub ...
'' in 1937. The beetle is now endangered and known from just five caves in Slovenia.
Part of his insect collection is now at the Natural History Museum Basel as part of the G. Frey Collection.
References
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