Philipp Christoph Zeller

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Philipp Christoph Zeller

Philipp Christoph Zeller (born April 9, 1808 in Steinheim an der Murr ; † March 27, 1883 in Stettin ) was a German entomologist and specialized in small butterflies (microlepidoptera).

Life

Philipp Christoph Zeller was interested in entomology from an early age . He graduated from the University of Berlin and studied beetles , two-winged birds and butterflies . He taught as a teacher in Glogau and later in Meseritz .

His first publication appeared in 1839 in the journal Isis, edited by Lorenz Oken , and dealt with a critical determination of the butterflies found in René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur Memoires . Zeller published his work in the magazines Isis , Linnaea entomologica and the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung and developed into one of the world's leading specialists in small butterflies. He is the first to describe the taxa Plutella geniatella Zeller , 1839, and Plutella polaris Zeller , 1880, both of which are assigned to the butterflies of the family of veil and half moths (Plutellidae).

In England he met numerous British entomologists, including Henry Tibbats Stainton (1822-1892), Henry Doubleday (1808-1875) and John William Douglas (1814-1905). Zeller helped prepare Stainton's Natural History of the Tineina (1855–1873).

Under the presidency of Carl August Dohrn , Zeller acted as secretary of the Entomological Association in Stettin . The Entomological Society of London elected him an honorary member.

Works

  • Critical determination of the lepidoptera found in Reaumur's memoirs ( Isis , 1838)
  • Attempt to divide the cockroaches naturally, tinea ( Isis , 1839)
  • Critical determination of the butterflies contained in de Geer's memoir ( Isis , 1839)
  • Monograph of the Hyponomeuta genus ( Isis , 1844)
  • Notes on Lienig's Lepidopterological Fauna of Livonia and Curland ( Isis , 1846)
  • The species of the leaf miner genus Lithocolletis described ( Linnaea , 1846)
  • Remarks on the butterfly species collected on a trip to Italy and Sicily ( Isis , 1847)
  • Exotic phycids ( Isis , 1848)
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the coleophores ( Isis , 1849)
  • Revision of the pterophorids ( Isis , 1852)
  • Lepidoptera microptera quae JA Wahlberg in caffrorum terra legit (Stockholm, 1852)
  • The species of the genus Butalis described ( Linnaea , 1855)
  • with Henry Tibbats Stainton, Heinrich Frey and John William Douglas The Natural History of the Tineina , 13 volumes, 1855
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the North American moths (3 parts, Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch. Vienna , 1872–1873)
  • Contributions to the lepidoptera fauna of the Upper Albula in Graubünden ( Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch. Wien ., 1877)
  • Exotic Lepidoptera ( Horae soc. Ent. Rossica , 1877)

literature

further reading

  • Pamela Gilbert: A compendium of the biographical literature on deceased entomologists . London 1977.
  • John L. Capinera (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Entomology . Volume 3, 2nd edition, Springer, 2008, p. 4306, ISBN 9781402062421 .

Web links

Commons : Philipp Christoph Zeller  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Philipp Christoph Zeller  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Osborn: A Brief History of Entomology: Including Time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to Modern Times with Over Five Hundred Portraits . Spahr & Glenn, Columbus 1952
personal data
SURNAME Zeller, Philipp Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinheim an der Murr
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1883
Place of death Szczecin