Eduard Wagner (entomologist)

Eduard Wagner (born June 20, 1896 in Hamburg ; † September 11, 1978 ibid) was a German entomologist who specialized in bedbugs (Heteroptera).

Life

He was the son of the elementary school teacher and later rector Andreas Christian Wilhelm Wagner. After graduating from the Hamburg teacher training college in 1915, Eduard Wagner also became a teacher in the Hamburg school service. Since 1937 he has also taught at the University for Teacher Training in Hamburg. In 1946/47 he was a lecturer in a course for special training for elementary school teachers. From 1954 until his retirement in 1960 he directed the primary school in Hummelsbüttel .

His interest in nature was stimulated early on by his father, who was himself a recognized hymenopterist , and by his maternal uncle, the Diptera specialist Otto Kröber . He specialized in bed bugs early on , his brother Wilhelm (1895–1977) in cicadas . From 1928 he was in charge of his own collection as well as that of the Hamburg Zoological Museum . It was not until 1937 that his first scientific work appeared, Die Banzen der Nordmark und Nordwest-Deutschlands . In quick succession he published articles on the bedbug fauna of other German and finally European areas. By his death he had published 554 scientific publications and 116 smaller communications. He described 697 species and subspecies and listed 92 higher taxa . His identification books still form the basis of any determination of bedbugs today.

The majority of his collection with over 3,600 species is at the University of Hamburg (Zoological Museum), small parts at the Natural History Museum of the City of Geneva (Eckerlein Collection) and at the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart . He was particularly concerned with soft bugs (Miridae) from Central Europe and the Mediterranean. He was the first to consistently illustrate the detailed structure of the Aedeagus in the Miridae.

The mathematics and natural sciences faculty of the University of Hamburg made him an honorary doctorate in 1966 . In 1975 he was awarded the Fabricius Medal by the German Entomological Society .

Fonts

• Natural history outdoors , 25 biological excursions, Nölke Verlag, 1947.
• with Georg Statz : Geocorisae (land bugs) from the Upper Oligocene deposits of Rott . In: Palaeontographica, A 98, 1950, pp. 97-136
• Blindbugs or Miriden , G. Fischer, Jena 1952 (= The animal world of Germany and the adjacent parts of the sea according to their characteristics and according to their way of life , part 41).
• A contribution to the systematics of the genus Phytocoris Fall. (Hem. Het. Miridae) . In: Nachrichten des Naturwissenschaftliches Museum der Stadt Aschaffenburg 42, 1954, pp. 1-44.
• Remarks on the system of the Miridae . In: German Entomological Journal, New Series 2, 1955, pp. 230–242.
• with HH Weber: Hétéroptères Miridae (PDF; 26.0 MB). Paris 1964 (= Faune de France , Volume 67).
• Bugs or Heteroptera , Volume 1: Pentatomorpha , VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1966 (= The animal world of Germany and the adjacent parts of the sea according to their characteristics and their way of life , part 54).
• Bugs or Heteroptera , Volume 2: Cimicomorpha , VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1967 (= The animal world of Germany and the adjacent parts of the sea according to their characteristics and their way of life , part 55).
• The Miridae Hahn, 1831, of the Mediterranean and the Macaronic Islands (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) , 3 parts and addendum, (= Entomologische Abhandlungen 37, 1971, pp. 1–484; 39, 1973, pp. 1–421; 40, 1975 , Pp. 1-483; 42, 1978, Suppl., Pp. 1-96).

literature

• Lexical entry in Randall T. Schuh, James Alexander Slater: The Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) , Cornell University Press 1995, p. 13
• Hans Heinrich Weber: Dr. hc Eduard Wagner 80 years . In: Mitteilungen Deutsche Entomologische Gesellschaft , Volume 35, 1976, pp. 1–51 (with list of publications)
• Hans-Jürgen Hoffmann: Who was Eduard Wagner . In: HETEROPTERON 29/2009 (PDF; 4.72 MB), pp. 4–9 (with addition to Weber's list of publications)
• Hans-Jürgen Hoffmann: Addendum to "Who Was Eduard Wagner" . In: HETEROPTERON 32/2010 (PDF; 5.86 MB), pp. 27–30 (further addition to the list of publications)