Ferdinand Kowarz

Ferdinand Kowarz (23 February 1838, Planá – 22 September 1914, Františkovy Lázně), was a Bohemian-Austrian entomologist who described many new species of Diptera mainly from central Europe

Kowarz was a post office official. To supplement his income he sold collections of Diptera to others in the same field.

Publications
  • 1867 Beschreibung sechs neuer Dipteren-Arten. Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 17: 319–324, 4 figs.
  • 1868 Dipterologische Notizen II. Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien., 18: 213–222
  • 1868 Dipterologische Notizen II. Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien., 18: 213–222.
  • 1869 Beitrag zur Dipteren fauna Ungarns. Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien., 19: 561- 566.
  • 1874 Die Dipteren-Gattung Chrysotus Meig. Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien., 24: 453–478 + 1 pl.
  • 1878 Die Dipteren-Gattung Medeterus Fischer. Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien., 27 (1877): 39–76, 24 figs.
  • 1879 Die Dipteren-Gattungen Argyra Macq. und Leucostola Lw. Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien., 28 (1878): 437–462, 26 figs
  • 1880 Die Dipterengattung Lasiops Mg. ap Rd., ein Beitrag zum Studium der europäischen Anthomyiden. Mitt. Münch. ent. Ver., 4: 123–140.
  • 1882 Eine neue Art der Dipteren-Gattung Leucostola Lw. Wien. Ent. Zeitg., 1: 32–33.
  • 1883 Beiträge zu einem Verzeichnisse der Dipteren Böhmens I. -III. Wien. Ent. Zeitg., 2: 108–110 (I), 168–170 (II), 241- 243 (III) .*.
  • 1883 Contributiones ad faunam Comitatus Zemplémensis in Hungaria superiore. Diptera Comitatus Zempléniensis collectionis Dies Cornelli Chyzer. Mag. orvos. term., 22: 233–246. (In Hung.; Latin title.)
  • 1884 Beiträge zu einem Verzeichnisse der Dipteren Böhmens IV. Wien. Ent. Zeitg., 3: 45–57.
  • 1885 Mikianov. gen. Dipterorum. Wien. Ent. Zeitg.., 4: 51–52.
  • 1885 Beiträge zu einem Verzeichnisse der Dipteren Böhmens VI. Wien. Ent. Zeitg.., 4: 105–108, 133–136, 167–168, 201–208, 241–244.
  • 1887 Beiträge zu einem Verzeichnisse der Dipteren Böhmens VI. Wien. Ent. Zeitg., 6: 146–154.
  • 1889 Die europäischen Arten der Dipteren-Gattung SympycnusLw. Wien. Ent. Zeitg., 8: 175–185.
  • 1894 Catalogus insectorum faunae bohemicae. -II. Fliegen (Diptera) Böhmens. Prag, 42 pp

There is an online biography Online Biography[1]

Notes
  1. http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/oebl/oebl_K/Kowarz_Ferdinand_1838_1914.xml

Sources
  • Osten-Sacken, C. R. 1903: Record of my life and work in entomology. – Cambridge (Mass.) 135–137.
  • Pont, A. C. 1997: [Kowarz, F.] – Studia dipterologica 4(2) 353–358.
  • Rozkošný, R. 1971: Bibliography of Diptera in Czechoslovakia 1758–1965. – Vyd. Univ. Brno 91–93.


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