Theodor Alexander Otto Thieme ( 24 January 1857,

Oldisleben Oldisleben is a village and a former municipality in the district Kyffhäuserkreis, in Thuringia, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country i ...

– 1 July 1907,

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?) 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 ...

. Thieme was a teacher (oberlehrer). He specialised in the

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

Satyrinae The Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the browns, are a subfamily of the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies). They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known divers ...

of the

neotropics The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperat ...

. His work on

Pronophilina Pronophilina is a Neotropical subtribe of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae. They are a species-rich group with highest diversity in the tropical and subtropical mountains, especially the Andes. Before 1970, they were poorly studied, but re ...

is especially important. His collections are variously held by

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in Berlin,

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and

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. Professor Dr. Otto Thieme first studied

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and

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at the universities of Jena and Leipzig. He worked for some years at a German private school in Viborg then in Finland and later in the service of higher education in the city of Berlin. He collected insects in Italy, France and Switzerland, then travelled to South America on a two year expedition.

Works

partial list *Thieme, O. (1904) Neue Tagesschmetterlinge aus der südamerikanischen Cordillere". ''Beit. Entomol. Zeitschrift''. XLIX. *Thieme, O. (1905) Monographie der gattung Pedaliodes Butl. (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera: Satyridae). ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'', 50 (1/2), 43–141, pls. 1–

*Thieme, O. (1907) Monographische Bearbeitung der Gattungen Lasiophila Felder, Daedalma Hew., Catargynnis Röber, Oxeoschistus Butl., Pronophila Westw., Corades Double. Hew. (Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Satyridae). Mit Bergründung neuer Gattungen und einer Anzah ''Berl. ent. Z.'' 51(2), pp. 01-233, illustrated

References

Ziegler, F. 1907: hieme, O.''Berl. Ent. Ztschr., Berlin'' 52 (2) 114-116

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1907 deaths 1857 births German lepidopterists {{Germany-biologist-stub