Johannes Winnertz
Johannes Winnertz (born February 11, 1800 ; † July 24, 1890 ) was a German entomologist who specialized in processing flies ( Diptera ).
Live and act
Johannes Winnertz worked as a businessman in Krefeld . Until about 1867 in Europe 55 kinds of Sciarinen (were fungus gnats ) are known. Winnertz edited the group and described a total of 131 new species of these flies in a publication from 1867.
His collections are in the Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt and in the Natural History Museum Vienna . Parts of the collection in the Zoological Museum Bonn (formerly part of the Natural History Museum Poppelsdorf, which no longer exists in this form, today the Institute for Zoology at the University of Bonn) may have been destroyed in the Second World War.
Works
- Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Ceratopogon Meigen . 1852
- Contribution to a monograph on gall mosquitoes . 1853
- Contribution to a monograph on fungus mosquitoes . 1863
- Contribution to a monograph of the Sciarinen . Vienna, 1867
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| SURNAME | Winnertz, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1800 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1890 |