Ingvar Svensson (entomologist)

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Ingvar Svensson (born July 29, 1919 in Glimåkra , † February 17, 2011 in Nosaby in the southern Swedish province of Skåne län ) was a Swedish forest engineer and lepidopterist .

Life

Svensson's pyramid owl

Svensson spent his childhood on a farm in southern Sweden, where he came into contact with nature at an early age and began collecting plants and butterflies. Since he did not live close to a place of study, he first began a distance learning course, did a forestry internship and graduated in 1946 as a forest engineer in Stockholm with excellent grades. He also completed a hunting master's degree, which he graduated as a civilian hunter in 1947. Svensson worked as a forest officer in various regions of Sweden and was still very active entomologically . His main interest was the earlier than small butterflies designated (Microlepidoptera) species . During his more than 70-year career as a butterfly collector, he described new species with type locations in Sweden and cataloged around 2000 new provincial finds. Svensson also undertook numerous expeditions to Finland , Norway , Austria and Central Asia as well as to Australia , New Guinea and Japan . He realized that in addition to the pyramid owl ( Amphipyra pyramidea ) there was another, very similar species, which was previously only classified as a subspecies and which was now referred to as Amphipyra berbera . In honor of Svensson, the species received the trivial name Svensson's pyramid owl . Svensson's oak leaf miner ( Stigmella svenssoni ), which belongs to the group of dwarf leaf miners (Nepticulidae ), was dedicated to him.

Most of his extensive butterfly collection is in the Biological Museum of Lund University and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Fonts

Svensson wrote about 90 publications on entomological topics.

Taxa named after Svensson (selection)

Several species of butterflies were named in Svensson's honor. This includes:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Antonio Vives Moreno: In Memoriam Ingeniero Ingvar Svensson , In: SHILAP Revta. lepid. , Volume 39, No. 153, 2011, pp. 111-115
  2. ↑ a b Bengt Å. Bengtsson: Johan Ingvar Manfred Svensson , In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , Volume 34, (2013-2019), p. 703
  3. ↑ Bengt Å. Bengtsson & Nils Ryrholm: Ingvar Svensson 27 July 1919–17 February 2011 , In: Nota Lepidopterologica , Volume 34, No. 1, 2011, pp. 7-9

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personal data
SURNAME Svensson, Ingvar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Svensson, Johan Ingvar Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish entomologist and forest engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Glimåkra
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2011
Place of death Nosaby