August Victor Paul Blüthgen (25 July 1880 in
Mühlhausen
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, Thüringen – 2 September 1967 in
Naumburg
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) was a German
entomologist
Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...
who specialised in
Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the 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 parasitic.
Females typi ...
.
He was a Doctor of Law
Jurist
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and court adviser. Blüthgen described very many new species of
Aculeata
Aculeata is an infraorder of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps. The name is a reference to the defining feature of the group, which is the modification of the ovipositor into a stinger. However, many members of the group cann ...
(bees and wasps).
References
*Anonym 1955
luthgen, A. V. P.'' Neues Deutschland'' (30. 6. 1955) (Verleihung Leibniz-Medaille), Portr. Konvolut Dorn
*Gusenleitner, F. 1991 ''Wildbienenforschung in Österreich''. - Kataloge des Oberösterr. Landesmuseums NF (2. Auflage) 10 103-153 103 - 153, Portrait.
* Nonveiller, G. 1999 ''The Pioneers of research on the Insects of Dalmatia''. Zagreb, Hrvatski Pridodoslovni Muzej : 1-390 149.
*Rommel, R.-P. 2002: Biographien Nordwestthüringer Entomofaunisten. ''Veröff. Naturkundemus. Mus. Erfurt , Erfurt'' 21: 69-82 75–76.
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German entomologists
Hymenopterists
1967 deaths
1880 births
20th-century German zoologists
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