Richard Kleine

Richard Kleine (born July 4, 1874 in Magdeburg , † April 10, 1948 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German entomologist , coleopterologist and phytopathologist . His main research interests were the families of the red-cap beetles (Lycidae) and the long beetles (Brentidae).

Life

Kleine was born the son of a master carpenter in Magdeburg. His passion for plants and insects was nurtured from an early age by his mother, who was an avid flower grower, by taking him on her resin botanical tours. Under pressure from his father, he learned the printing trade in Magdeburg, spent a few years as a journeyman in the Rhineland and worked from 1899 to 1910 as a machine foreman in Halle (Saale). In 1911 he gave up his profession and became assistant to Kurt Störmer (1878-1950) at the plant protection station of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Saxony . In 1912 he moved to the Institute for Plant Production of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Pomerania in Szczecin . In 1924 he was appointed head of the plant protection department and the seed testing agency, and in 1928 he was appointed to the Chamber of Agriculture.

In 1937 he retired and in 1938 he became a volunteer at the Museum of Natural History in Szczecin, until he had to leave the city in March 1945 during the evacuation. Kleine and his wife were initially accommodated in Zettemin and Pinnow before they returned to Halle (Saale) in 1946. Little Frau died in 1947 and in April 1948 he died of complications from tuberculosis .

Small bibliography comprises 417 entomological titles and a similar number of phytopathological publications dealing with weeds and their control, fungal diseases of cereals and forage crops, dressing of cereals, cultivation and diseases of potatoes, including potato canker, beet diseases and other questions of plant protection deal. Among the subjects of his insect pests include cumin moth , the pea moth , the cabbage looper , the Wintersaateule , the drugstore beetle , the Rübenaaskäfer , flea beetles , weevils , frit fly , Weizenhalmfliege , corn flower fly , onion maggot and the bark beetle .

For a long time it was assumed that Kleines's collection was destroyed during World War II, but in 2004 it turned out that part of it was transported from Szczecin to Warsaw, where it is still housed in the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences .

Beetle genera described by Kleine

In addition to several hundred species of beetles, including 103 from New Guinea , Kleine described 91 genera, including:

• Gyalostoma Kleine, 1914
• Heterothesis Kleine, 1914
• Elytracantha Kleine, 1915
• Baryrhynchus ( Eupsalomimus ) Small, 1916
• Caenosebus Little, 1916
• Dyscheromorphus Kleine, 1916
• Isomorphus Kleine, 1916
• Schizoadidactus Kleine, 1916
• Stibacephalus Kleine, 1916
• Tetanocephalus Small, 1916
• Anepsiotes Kleine, 1917
• Heteroblysmia Small, 1917
• Schizoeupsalis Little, 1917
• Suborychodes Little, 1917
• Systellus Kleine, 1917
• Acramorphocephalus Small, 1918
• Hadramorphocephalus Small, 1918
• Hypomiolispa Kleine, 1918
• Leptamorphocephalus Small, 1918
• Micramorphocephalus Small, 1918
• Ithystenomorphus Kleine, 1919
• Mesitogenus Kleine, 1919
• Perisymmorphocerus Kleine, 1919
• Syggenithystenus Kleine, 1919
• Anocamara Little, 1920
• Atenophthalmus Small, 1920
• Homophylus Kleine, 1920
• Isoceocephalus Small, 1920
• Myrmecobrenthus Little, 1920
• Palaeoceocephalus Small, 1920
• Paramorphocephalus Small, 1920
• Pseudoceocephalus Small, 1920
• Pseudophocylides Kleine, 1920
• Agrioblepis Little, 1921
• Allacompsus Little, 1921
• Corporaalia Kleine, 1921
• Hemiorychodes Little, 1921
• Henorychodes Little, 1921
• Hetaeroceocephalus Small, 1921
• Megateras Little, 1921
• Paratrachelizus Kleine, 1921
• Parorychodes Little, 1921
• Proteramocerus Kleine, 1921
• Sclerotrachelus Kleine, 1921
• Synorychodes Little, 1921
• Thaumastopsis Kleine, 1921
• Ananesiotes Little, 1922
• Autometrus Kleine, 1922
• Calyptulus Small, 1922
• Chalybdicus Kleine, 1922
• Chelorhinus Small, 1922
• Euschizus Kleine, 1922
• Hemicordus Small, 1922
• Leptocymatium Small, 1922
• Opisthenoxys Kleine, 1922
• Periceocephalus Small, 1922
• Peritrachelizus Kleine, 1922
• Pittodes Kleine, 1922
• Proepisphales Kleine, 1922
• Pseudanchisteus Kleine, 1922
• Pyresthema Little, 1922
• Stroggylosternum Kleine, 1922
• Uropteroid Kleine, 1922
• Aneorhachis Little One, 1923
• Holobrenthus Little, 1923
• Peraprophthalmus Kleine, 1923
• Schizephebocerus Kleine, 1923
• Amobaeus Kleine, 1925
• Ceragogus Kleine, 1925
• Genogogus Little ones , 1925
• Hemisamblus Small, 1925
• Metatrachelus Kleine, 1925
• Parusambius Kleine, 1925
• Perorychodes Little, 1925
• Plesiophocylides Kleine, 1925
• Schizuropterus Kleine, 1925
• Teraticorhynchus Kleine, 1925
• Catablysmia Small, 1926
• Catagogus Kleine, 1926
• Eupsalomorphus Kleine, 1926
• Paragogus Kleine, 1926
• Pseudomiolispa Kleine, 1926
• Hyposphales Kleine, 1927
• Nemocephalinus Kleine, 1927
• Raphirhynchidus Kleine, 1927
• Stereobatinus Kleine, 1927
• Taphroderomimus Kleine, 1927
• Macropareia Small, 1932
• Hypotrachelizus Kleine, 1933
• Leptomiolispa Kleine, 1933
• Parapisthius Kleine, 1935

Dedication names

In 1918 Embrik Strand named the long beetle genus Kleineella after Richard Kleine.

literature

• Hans Sachtleben : Richard Kleine. Ein Nekrolog Koleopterologische Zeitschrift Volume 1, Issue 2, 1949, pp. 89-92

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Kleine in the WorldCat bibliographic database