Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres
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Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres (9 April 1769, Berlin
– 28 November 1809, Berlin) was a German
entomologist especially interested in Lepidoptera
. He was a Bürgermeister in Berlin. Laspeyres collection is in Museum für Naturkunde.
The moth
genus
Laspeyresia is named after him.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
– 28 November 1809, Berlin) was a German
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 especially interested 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...
. He was a Bürgermeister in Berlin. Laspeyres collection is in Museum für Naturkunde.
The moth
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Laspeyresia is named after him.
Works
- Kritische Revision der neuen Ausgabe des systematischen Verzeichnisses von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend. Illigers’s Magazine (von Karl IlligerJohann Karl Wilhelm IlligerJohann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was a German entomologist and zoologist.Illiger was the son of a merchant in Brunswick. He studied under the entomologist Johann Hellwig, and later worked on the zoological collections of Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg...
). Braunschweig, Karl Reichard, 1803 - Sesiae Europaeae Iconibus et Descriptionibus illustratae, 32 pp., 1 pl. Berlin. pdf
Other references
- Horn, W. H. R. & Schenkling, S. 1928-1929: Index Litteraturae Entomologicae, Serie I: die Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive 1863. - Berlin-Dahlem, Selbstverlag W. Horn 1-4 XXI p., 1426 p., 4 Tafeln