Carl Plötz

Carl Plötz (* 1814 ; † August 12, 1886 in Greifswald ) was a German entomologist ( lepidopterology ).

Plötz worked on the butterfly fauna of the Greifswald area, where he lived, and of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. He was a specialist in thick-headed butterflies (Hesperiidae). He also worked on Reinhold Wilhelm Buchholz's African butterfly collection .

His drawings of butterflies (over 10,700 plates) went to the Zoological State Collection in Munich. 60 boxes from his collection are in the Zoological Institute in Greifswald.

He was a member of the Szczecin Entomological Association since 1856. In 1877/78 he was a collection assistant at the Zoological Institute in Greifswald.

Fonts

• with H. Paul: Directory of the butterflies that were observed in New Western Pomerania and on Rügen . In: Communications from the natural science association for New Western Pomerania and Rügen , Volume 4, Berlin 1872, pp. 52–115 Archives
• System of butterflies . In: Mittheilungen from the natural science association for New-Western Pomerania and Rügen , Volume 17, Greifswald, 1886, pp. 485-528

literature

• Gerrit Friese: The research of the Mecklenburg butterfly fauna (A contribution to the history of entomology in Germany) . In: Archives of the Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg 5, 1959, pp. 226–264.

Individual evidence

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