Gustaf von Paykull

Gustav von Paykull (21 August 1757 – 28 January 1826) was a Swedish friherre (circa baron) and Marshal of the Court, ornithologist and entomologist.

Gustaf von Paykull

He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy from 1791 and a founder of the natural history museum (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet) in Stockholm, through his 1819 donation of his extensive zoological collections to the academy (now in the Swedish Museum of Natural History). He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1804.[1]

Publications

His best-known publications are:

Monographia Histeroidum. Upsaliae : Palmblad iv 114 pp. (1811).
Fauna Suecica. Insecta, Coleoptera. Upsala : Edman 3 volumes. (3 volumes,1798,1799,1800)

Species named in his honor

The red false black widow spider, S. paykulliana
The pantropical jumping spider, Plexippus paykulli[2]
The Band-bellied crake, Porzana paykullii or its protonym, Rallus Paykullii[3]
Scolopax Paykullii,[3] probably the Red breasted snipe,[4] or Short-billed dowitcher – synonym Scolopax grisea
Tortrix paykulliana[3] – one of the Epinotia ramella synonyms
Alucita Paykullella[3] – one of the Micropterix paykullella synonyms
Amarygmus Paykulii[3] – a beetle of the Tenebrioninae subfamily

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References

"Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter V" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
Cates, Jerry (2011-01-21). "A Pantropical Jumping Spider from Walden Marina, Montgomery, Texas". Retrieved 2019-04-27.
"Kongl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar FÖR ÅR 1826". The Swedish Academy of Sciences. p. 356. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
Richardson, John; Swainson, William; Kirby, William. "Fauna Boreali-americana, Or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: The birds". Retrieved 2019-04-27.

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[AAAS-1] "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter V" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 7 August 2014.

[2] Cates, Jerry (2011-01-21). "A Pantropical Jumping Spider from Walden Marina, Montgomery, Texas". Retrieved 2019-04-27.

[Svenska_vetenskapsakademiens-3] "Kongl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar FÖR ÅR 1826". The Swedish Academy of Sciences. p. 356. Retrieved 2019-04-27.

[4] Richardson, John; Swainson, William; Kirby, William. "Fauna Boreali-americana, Or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: The birds". Retrieved 2019-04-27.