Wolfgang Siegfried Karg (1927–2016) was an

East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

entomologist who specialised in

mites Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods). Mites span two large orders of arachnids, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari, but genetic analysis does not show clear evid ...

(Acari).

Following captivity in World War II he completed high school and teacher training, and then taught in high schools from 1948 to 1950 in Groß-Alsleben,

Sachsen-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

, in what was then East Germany. He received his doctorate in 1960 from

Humboldt University Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of ...

in Berlin and completed his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in 1965 with a thesis on

phylogeny A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spec ...

of predatory mites. From 1956 he worked at the Biological Research Centre in Berlin. In 1990 he was appointed professor. He worked on the effect of pesticides on microarthropods in various ecosystems; predatoy mites in agronomy; and the systematics and phylogeny of

Mesostigmata Mesostigmata is an order of mites belonging to the Parasitiformes. They are by far the largest group of Parasitiformes, with over 8,000 species in 130 families. Mesostigmata includes parasitic as well as free-living and predatory forms. They can ...

, and was awarded the Fabricius medal in 1993 by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Angewandte Entomologie (German entomology society).

Species

Species named and described by Karg

Over 800 taxa were named and described by Karg. See also

Taxa named by Wolfgang Karg In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam ...

Species named to honour Karg

* '' Alliphis kargi'' Arutunian, 1991 * '' Cheiroseius kargi'' Gwiazdowicz, 2002 * '' Cyrthydrolaelaps kargi'' Hirschmann, 1966 * ''

Dendrolaelaps kargi ''Dendrolaelaps'' is a genus of mites in the family Digamasellidae. There are more than 170 described species in ''Dendrolaelaps''. See also * List of Dendrolaelaps species These 179 species belong to ''Dendrolaelaps'', a genus of mites in the ...

'' Hirschmann, 1966 * '' Epicrius kargi'' Solomon, 1978 * '' Evimirus kargi'' Hirschmann, 1975 * '' Hypoaspis kargi'' Costa, 1968 * '' Iphidozercon kargi'' Hirschmann, 1966 * Lasioseius kargi Kandil, 1980 * Lasioseius kargi Christian, 1990 * '' Thinoseius kargi'' Hirschmann, 1966 * '' Uropoda kargi'' Hirschmann & Zirngiebl-Nicol, 1969

Some publications

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References

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