Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843 – 20 July 1928) was a

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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 ...

Life

Christopher Aurivillius was born at Forsa, Sweden. He was the director of the

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Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

and he specialised in

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

and

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

. He was, for a long time, the secretary of the

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. His brother was the zoologist Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius (1854–1899) and his son the zoologist Sven Magnus Aurivillius (1892–1928). He was the author of Part 39

Cerambycidae The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than ...

: Cerambycinae (1912) and Parts 73 and 74. Cerambycidae: Lamiinae (1922, 1923) in: S. Schenkling (ed.), ''Coleopterorum Catalogus''. W. Junk, Berlin, 1000 + pages. Also ''Rhopalocera Aethiopica'' (1898), major contributions to

Adalbert Seitz Friedrich Joseph Adalbert Seitz, (24 February 1860 in Mainz – 5 March 1938 in Darmstadt) was a German physician and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was a director of the Frankfurt zoo from 1893 to 1908 and is best known for editi ...

's ''Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde'' Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925 and many papers on the Lepidoptera of

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and ''Über sekundäre Geschlechtscharaktere nordischer Tagfalter'' Stockholm (1880) a work on

moths Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

. In 1922, he discovered the beetle ''

Ozineus dimidiatus ''Sternacutus dimidiatus'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843 – 20 July 1928) was a Swedish entomologist. Life Christop ...

'' which is part of the family

. Aurivillius was also the permanent secretary of

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from 1901 to 1923.

Papers on African Lepidoptera

*Aurivillius, 1893 "Diagnosen neuer lepidopteren aus Afrika" ''

Entomologisk Tidskrift The ''Entomologisk Tidskrift'' (English: ''Entomological Journal'') is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the '' Entomological Society of Sweden'' (Swedish: Sveriges Entomologiska Förening) covering research on entomology, with an ...

'' 14: 199–214 *———, 1894 "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfaun von Kamerun. 2. Tagfalter" ''Entomologisk Tidskrift''. 15: 273–314 *———, 1898 "Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika" ''Entomologisk Tidskrift''r. 19: 177–186 *———, 1898 "Neue Nymphaliden aus dem Congogebiete Öfvers" ''K. Vetensk Akad. Förh. Stockh''. 54: 279–286 *———, 1901 "Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika" ''Entomologisk Tidskrift''. 22: 113–128

References

* Anthony Musgrave (1932). ''Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775–1930, With Biographical Notes on Authors and Collectors'', Royal Zoological Society of News South Wales (Sydney): viii + 380.

External links

BHL
Digital version of ''Rhopalocera Aethiopica'' (1898)
PDF
Digital version of ''Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae'' (1912)
African Butterfly Database
Complete list of Aurivillius' publications on African butterflies. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aurivillius, Per Olof Christopher Swedish entomologists Swedish taxonomists 1843 births 1928 deaths Swedish lepidopterists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences People from Hudiksvall Municipality 19th-century Swedish zoologists 20th-century Swedish zoologists