Sievert Allen Rohwer (22 December 1887 in
Telluride – 12 February 1951) was an American
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
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 ...
. He was a graduate of the
University of Colorado
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. At the time of his death, Rohwer was serving as the Coordinator Defense Activities for the Agricultural Research Administration within the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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. Rohwer worked for the USDA from 1909 until his death.
Rohwer wrote ''Technical papers on miscellaneous forest insects. II. The genotypes of the sawflies or woodwasps, or the superfamily Tenthredinoidea''. Technical series US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, Washington, DC 20: 69–109 (1911) and many papers describing new species of Hymenoptera. His collection is held by the
Smithsonian Institution
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Washington D. C.
His zoological author abbreviations is Rohwer.
See
Taxa named by Sievert Allen Rohwer for a list of taxa authored by Rohwer which have wikipedia pages, an
this queryfor those listed in wikidata.
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References
See also
*Bradley, J. C. 1959 The influence of the American Entomological Society upon the study of Hymenoptera. ''Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc.'' 85(4).
*Mallis, A. 1971 ''American Entomologists''.Rutgers Univ. Press New Brunswick 494-496. Portrait.
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1887 births
1951 deaths
American entomologists
Hymenopterists
United States Department of Agriculture officials
20th-century American zoologists