Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843, Forsa – 20 July 1928) was a Swedish entomologist.
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Died | 20 July 1928 85) | (aged
Nationality | Swedish |
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Fields | Entomology |
Life
Christopher Aurivillius was born at Forsa, Sweden. 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).
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's 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. In 1922, he discovered the beetle Ozineus dimidiatus which is part of the family Cerambycidae.
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Aurivillius was also the permanent secretary of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1901 to 1923.
Papers on African Lepidoptera
- Aurivillius, 1893 "Diagnosen neuer lepidopteren aus Afrika" Entomologisk tidskrift 14: 199-214
- ———, 1894 "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfaun von Kamerun. 2. Tagfalter" Entomologisk tidskrift. 15: 273-314
- ———, 1898 "Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika" Entomologisk tidskriftr. 19: 177-186
- ———, 1898 "Neue Nymphaliden aus dem Congogebiete Öfvers" K. Vetensk Akad. Förh. Stockh. 54: 279-286
- ———, 1901 "Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika" Entomologisk tidskrift. 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.