Carl Heinrich Hopffer
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Carl Heinrich Hopffer was a German
entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
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Hopffer was a curator
(Custos) at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He described many new species mainly in the following works.
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entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...
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Hopffer was a curator
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
(Custos) at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He described many new species mainly in the following works.
- Neue Schmetterlinge der Insekten-Sammlung des Konigl. Zoologischen Musei der Universitat zu Berlin with Johann Christoph Friedrich KlugJohann Christoph Friedrich KlugJohann Christoph Friedrich Klug was a German entomologist born 5 May 1775 in Berlin and died 3 February 1856 in the same city.He described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich's Symbolæ Physicæ...
(1836) - Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique, auf befehl Seiner Majestat des konigs Friedrich Wilhelm IV in den jahfren 1842 bis 1848 ausfefuhrt von Wilhelm C.H. PetersWilhelm PetersWilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
( Zoologie. V. Insecten und myriopoden)Berlin: in German (1862) - Ueber Cenea Stoll. Entomologische Zeitung. Herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu StettinStettin Entomological SocietyThe Entomological Society of Stettin or Stettin Entomological Society, based in Stettin , was one of the leading entomological societies of the 19th century. Most German entomologists were members, as were many from England, Sweden, Italy, France, and Spain...
27 (1/3), pp. [131-132.] (1865) - Neue Arten der Gattung Papilio im Berliner Museum. Entomologische Zeitung. Herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin 27 (1/3), pp. [22-32] (1866)
- Bericht über Felder's Lepidoptera der Reise der Fregatte NovaraSMS Novara (1850)SMS Novara was a sail frigate of the Austro-Hungarian Navy most noted for sailing the globe for the Novara Expedition of 1857–1859 and, later for carrying Archduke Maximilian and wife Carlota to Vera Cruz in May 1864 to become Emperor and Empress of Mexico.-Service :The SMS Novara was a frigate...
(Fortsetzung) Entomologische Zeitung herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin 30 (10/12), pp. [427-453.] (1869): - Beitrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna von Celebes Entomologische Zeitung herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin 35 (1/3), pp. [17-47.] (1874)
- Neue Lepidopteren von Peru und Bolivia. Entomologische Zeitung herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin 35 10-12), pp. [329-371.] (1874)
- Exotische Schmetterlinge. Entomologische Zeitung herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin 40, pp. [47-95, 413-454] (1879)