Rudolf Püngeler (15 February 1857 – 1 February 1927) 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

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organ ...

. He was a district court lawyer in

Aachen Aachen is the List of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia by population, 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants. Aachen is locat ...

. Püngeler described very many new species and named ten new

genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...

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/ref> mainly in ''Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris. Dresden''. His most important work was on the Lepidoptera of

Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. His collection of

Palaearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. Th ...

Lepidoptera is in the Berlin

Museum für Naturkunde The Natural History Museum () is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany. It exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history and in such domain it is one of three major museums in Germany alongside Naturm ...

. He was born in

Burtscheid Burtscheid () is a district of the city of Aachen, part of the Aachen-Mitte Stadtbezirk. It is a health resort. History It was inhabited since ancient times by Celts and Romans, who were attracted by the presence of hot springs. Burtscheid ...

and died in

Works

* "Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Centralasien". In: ''Societas Entomologica''. Bd. 13, Nr. 8, 1898, , S. 57–58
online
* "Neue Macrolepidopteren aus Centralasien". In: ''Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift. Lepidopterologische Hefte'' Bd. 14, 1901, , S. 177–191, Taf. 1–3. * "Neue Macrolepidopteren aus Centralasien". In: ''Societas Entomologica'' Bd. 19, Nr. 16, 1904, S. 121–122, Nr. 17, 130–131
online

Püngeler, R. 1904. Neue palaearctische Macrolepidopteren. - Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 16: 286-301.
* "Neue paläarktische Macrolepidopteren". In: ''Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift „Iris“'' Bd. 19, 1906, , S. 78–98. * "Neue paläarktische Macrolepidopteren". In: ''Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift „Iris“'' Bd. 28, 1914, S. 37–62. * "6. Arctia wagneri Püng. nov. spec". In: Fritz Wagner: ''Einige alte und neue europäisch-palaearktische Lepidopteren'' In: ''Zeitschrift des Österreichischen Entomologischen Vereines Wien'' Bd. 3, S. 1918, , S. 43–47, hier S. 46
online
(PDF; 9,1 MB). * "Verzeichnis der bisher in der Umgegend Aachens gefundenen Macro-Lepidoptera". In: ''Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift „Iris“'' Bd. 51, 1937, S. 1–100, (posthum, Originalmanuskript von 1888 bis 1927).

Citations

General and cited references

* Pfaff, G. & Wrede, O. H. 1934 üngeler, R. Festschrift, 50jähriges Bestehen I.E.V. DEI.

External links

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Portrait Reference List. 1857 births 1927 deaths German lepidopterists {{entomologist-stub