Wolfgang Dierl

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Wolfgang Dierl (born January 20, 1935 in Kirchschlag (today Světlík ), Czechoslovakia , † March 26, 1996 in Munich ) was a German lepidopterist and non-fiction author. His research focus was the family of the real sack-bearers (Psychidae).

Life

Dierl was the second son of the teacher couple Klara and Friedrich Dierl. As a child he developed a fascination for nature. His father was killed during World War II. The mother moved with the two sons first to Linz , then to Sweden and finally to Germany. In the post-war years Dierl made his Abitur. After studying biology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , he received his doctorate in 1962 with a dissertation on cytology, morphology and anatomy of the sack moth F. casta and crassiorella and B. comitella with cross-breeding attempts to clarify the species specificity .

In 1966 Dierl became a curator at the Munich State Zoological Collection . From 1986 to 1995, he was Walter Forster's successor and chairman of the Munich Entomological Society. Dierl wrote 73 publications and reports as well as a large number of monographs. These include the first descriptions of numerous taxa, including, for example, the genera Bivincula , Penicillifera , Vinculinata , Bivinculata , Lindnerica , Bourgognea , Afropsyche , Gnathocinara , Pseudometisa , Triuncina and Altobankesia .

In 1965 Dierl published the book Butterflies - Tagfalter with Othmar Danesch and in 1969 he was involved in the section on butterflies in the second volume of Grzimek's Animal Life . In 1975 the book Butterflies - Identifying our day and night butterflies from color photos was published . In 1978 Dierl published the FSVO Nature Guide: Insects , which was also published in English in the same year under the title British and European Insects . In 1979 he published a new edition of the book Insecten-Amustigung with illustrations by August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof from the 18th century. In 1982, in collaboration with Wilhelm Eisenreich, Der große BLV-Naturführer was published: Forests, meadows and fields - wetlands, beach and coast - Alps . In 1985 he translated the book De wonderwereld van de insects by Martin van der Donk and Teo van Gerwen into German and published it under the title Das Kosmosbuch der insects: Diversity, Adaptation and Lifestyle .

Wolfgang Dierl undertook three large expeditions to Nepal , the first from March to September 1964, the second from May to September 1967 and the third from April to August 1973.

Dierl was married twice, from 1968 until the death of his first wife in 1975 and from 1983 until his death in 1996.

Dedication names

After Wolfgang Dierl are more than 30 species, including Promalactis dierli , Hypochrosis dierli , Temnora dierli , Pheosiopsis dierli , Mustilizans dierli , Coeliccia dierli , Chorthippus dierli , Archips dierli , Thitarodes dierli , Eupithecia dierli and the two genera Dierlia and Dierla named.

literature

  • Axel Hausmann: In memoriam Dr. Wolfgang Dierl (January 20, 1935 - March 26, 1996). - Newsletter of the Bavarian Entomologists 45 (3/4), 1996: 50–55.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Dierl: The type species of the palaearctic Psychidae genera (Lep.) , Journal of the Working Group of Austrian Entomologists, 20th year 1–3, 1968, pp. 1–17
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Dierl: On the knowledge of the main biotopes of the expedition area Khumbu Himal from the point of view of the entomologist (Nepal Expedition 1964) , In: Walter Hellmich (Hrsg.) Khumbu Himal. , Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1966, ISBN 978-3-642-49623-3 , pp. 142-171
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Dierl, Ulrich Gruber: Habitat Conditions in the Transitional Zone in Central Nepal (A report on the German Zoological Expedition to Central Nepal 1973) Spixiana Vol. 2, 1979, pp. 1-47
personal data
SURNAME Dierl, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lepidopterologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchschlag (today Světlík , Czechoslovakia )
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1996
Place of death Munich