Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
| Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
15 January 1843 Forsa |
| Died | 20 July 1928 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Fields | Entomology |
Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843, Forsa – 20 July 1928) was a Swedish entomologist.
Life
Christopher Aurivillius was born at Forsa. He was the Director of the Natural History Museum in Stockholm and he specialised in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He was, for a long time, the Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science . His brother was the zoologist Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius (1854−1899) and his son the zoologist Sven Magnus Aurivillius (1892−1928). Aurivillius worked on world insects. He was the author of Part 39 Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae (1912) and Parts 73 and 74. Cerambycidae: Lamiinae (1922, 1923) in : S. Schenkling (ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, 1000 + pages. Also Rhopalocera Aethiopica (1898),major contributions to Adalbert Seitz Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925 and many papers on the Lepidoptera of Africa and Über sekundäre Geschlechtscharaktere nordischer Tagfalter. Stockholm (1880) a work on moths.
Aurivillius was also the permanent secretary of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1901–1923.
Papers 0n African Lepidoptera
- Aurivillius, 1893 Diagnosen neuer lepidopteren aus Afrika Ent. Tidskr. 14 : 199-214
- Aurivillius, 1894 Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfaun von Kamerun. 2. Tagfalter Ent. Tidskr. 15 : 273-314
- Aurivillius, 1898 Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika Ent. Tidskr. 19 : 177-186
- Aurivillius, 1898 Neue Nymphaliden aus dem Congogebiete Öfvers. K. VetenskAkad. Förh. Stockh. 54 : 279-286
- Aurivillius, 1901 Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika Ent. Tidskr. 22 : 113-128
References
- Anthony Musgrave (1932). Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, with biographical notes on authors and collectors, Royal Zoological Society of News South Wales (Sydney) : viii + 380.
External links
- BHL Digital version of Rhopalocera Aethiopica (1898)
- PDF Digital version of Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae (1912)
- African Butterfly Database Complete list of Aurivillius publications on African butterflies.