Heinrich Benno Möschler
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Heinrich Benno Möschler was a German
entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera
.
Möschler was a butterfly dealer and a member of the Entomological Society of Stettin.
His collections from Surinam and Puerto Rico
are in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. His Microlepidoptera
are in Naturkundemuseum Görlitz
.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
entomologist specialising 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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Möschler was a butterfly dealer and a member of the Entomological Society of Stettin.
His collections from Surinam and Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
are in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. His Microlepidoptera
Microlepidoptera
Microlepidoptera is an artificial grouping of moth families, commonly known as the 'smaller moths' . These generally have a wingspan of under 20 mm, and are thus harder to identify by external phenotypic markings than macrolepidoptera...
are in Naturkundemuseum Görlitz
Naturkundemuseum Görlitz
Naturkundemuseum Görlitz , in full Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz is a natural historymuseum in Gorlitz, Germany.-External links:*...
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Publications
Partial list- (1876) Exotisches (Fortsetzung). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 37(7-9), 293-315.
- (1877) Beiträge zur Schmetterlings-Fauna von Surinam Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 293-352 Möschler, 1877: Beiträge zur Schmetterlings-Fauna von Surinam Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 293-352
- (1878): Beiträge zur Schmetterlings-Fauna von Surinam. II. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27, 629-700.
- (1884). Beiträge zur Schmetterlings-fauna des Kaffernlandes. Verhandlungen der kk Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 33:267-310, l plate.
- (1890). Die Lepidopteren-Fauna der Insel Portorico. Abhandlungen der Senkenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 16 : 70-360, 1 plate.