Josef Emanuel Fischer von Röslerstamm or Josef Fischer von Röslerstamm or Josef Fischer von Rösslerstamm (19 February 1787, Rumburg – 17 March 1866, Vienna

Vienna

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) was an Austria

Austria

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n 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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He was an industrialist manufacturing macaroni

Macaroni

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, vermicelli

Vermicelli

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, and other processed foods. He lived in Vienna from 1837. Röslerstamm developed a method system of systematic tables (1834–1842) for the 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...

 and described many new species of these tiny moths. He studied often in the Naturhistorisches Museum

Naturhistorisches Museum

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 with Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer

Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer

Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer was an Austrian entomologist. He was a curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was the first keeper of the Lepidoptera. Rogenhofer was mainly interested in Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera.Beside him Josef Mann worked as a keen technician and collector...

 and Josef Johann Mann

Josef Johann Mann

Josef Johann Mann , or Johann Josef Ritter von Mann, was a German entomologist and a specialist in Lepidoptera....

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Further information and sources

• Mann, J.: 1866, Verh. zool. – bot. Ges. Wien, 16: Sitz. ber. 51–54.
• Horn, W. & Schenkling, S.: 1928, Index Litteraturae Entomologicae. Ser. I. Die Welt Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive 1863. Bd. II., Berlin: W. Horn, 360.
• Santifaller, L. & Obermayer – Marnach, E.: 1957, Fischer–Röslerstamm Josef Emanuel von. In: Österreichisches Biograpfisches Lexikon: 1815-1950, I. Band (A – Glä), Graz – Köln, 324.
• Koleška, Z.: 1980, Zprávy Čs. spol. ent. při ČSAV, Praha, 16: 49-50.
• Petersen, G.: 1984, Abh. Ber. Naturkundemus. Görlitz, 58(2): 49-60 + portrait.
• Gaedike, R. & Groll, E. K. eds. 2001, Entomologen der Welt (Biografien, Sammlungsverbleib). Datenbank, DEI Eberswalde im ZALF e. V.: "Fischer von Röslerstamm Jozef Emanuel".