Sergei Nikolayevich Alferaki
Sergei Nikolajewitsch Alferaki , Russian Сергей Николаевич Алфераки , also Alphéraky , (* 1850 ; † 1918 ) was a Russian ornithologist and entomologist who specialized in butterflies .
Life
He came from the wealthy and noble Greek family Alferaki in Taganrog . His brother was the composer Achilles Nikolajewitsch Alferaki . He studied from 1867 at Lomonossow University and from 1871 to 1873 with Otto Staudinger in Dresden.
He collected butterflies, for example, in the area around Taganrog (which he published about), in the North Caucasus and in Central Asia and edited collections from Nikolai Mikhailovich Prschewalski in Tibet, from Grigori Nikolajewitsch Potanin in Mongolia and China and from Alfred Otto Herz in the Amur -Region in Siberia, Korea and Kamchatka. On the advice of Prschewalski, he undertook an expedition to the eastern Tian Shan and the Gulja area in 1879 , during which he collected 12,000 butterflies, 112 of them new species. He published on the butterflies of the Tibet expedition of 1884/85 by Prschewalski in the Mémoires sur les lépidoptères (Volume 5, 1889, pp. 59-80) of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich Romanov (1859-1919), whom he also advised as an entomologist .
He was an honorary member of the Russian Entomological Society and the Royal Entomological Society of London .
Fonts
- The Geese of Europe and Asia, London: Rowland Ward, 1905.
Web links
References and comments
- ^ Among other things, in 1908 in the Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossica
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Alferaki, Sergei Nikolajewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Алфераки, Сергей Николаевич; Alphéraky, Sergei Nikolajewitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian ornithologist and entomologist specializing in butterflies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1850 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1918 |