Rudolf Felder
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Rudolf Felder was an Austria
Austria
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n jurist
Jurist
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 and entomologist. He was mainly 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...

, amassing, with his father, Cajetan Felder
Cajetan Freiherr von Felder
Baron Cajetan von Felder, German: Cajetan Freiherr von Felder was an Austrian jurist, politician, and entomologist...

 a huge collection.

Works

  • with Felder C.
    Cajetan Freiherr von Felder
    Baron Cajetan von Felder, German: Cajetan Freiherr von Felder was an Austrian jurist, politician, and entomologist...

    ,Lepidopterologische Fragmente. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift 3:390–405. (1859)

  • Lepidopterorum Amboinensium a Dre L. Doleschall annis 1856 - 1868 collectorum species novae, diagnostibus collustratae. Sitzungsberichten der k. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien, Jahr. (1860 or 1861).

  • with Felder, C and 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...

    Reise de osterreichischen Fregatte Novara urn die Erde. . . .'. Zool. Theil. Vol. 2, Part 2. Lepidoptera. (Vienna.) (1865).


Sources

  • Schiner, J.R., 1872: Rudolph Felder. Ein Nachruf. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 22: 41-50.
  • Anonym 1871: [Felder, R.] Petites Nouv. Ent. 1(30):122
  • Gilbert, P. 2000: Butterfly Collectors and Painters. Four centuries of colour plates from The Library Collections of The Natural History Museum, London. - Singapore, Beaumont Publishing Pte Ltd.
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