Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch

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Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (* 1907 , † 1970 ) was a German-Peruvian malacologist and entomologist .

Life

Weyrauch received his doctorate in zoology in Berlin in 1929 (dissertation: Hypnosis in Forficula auricularia ).

Weyrauch worked from 1938 in Peru as an entomologist at the agricultural research station (Estación Agrícola de La Molina) in Lima . During the Second World War he was in Texas for research purposes for a few years. From 1946 he was at the Estación Experimental Agrícola de Tingo Maria in Lima. From 1948 he was at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural of the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in Lima as a professor of zoology and genetics. He was also professor of agricultural zoology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Lima from 1959 to 1961. In 1962 he went to Argentina and became a professor at the Instituto Miguel Lillo in Tucumán . He died of a heart attack.

He studied land and freshwater snails from South America and described 198 new taxa, many from the Orthalicidae . He also left many type specimens in museums, of which he did not publish a first description.

literature

  • A. Zilch: Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970), Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologische Gesellschaft, 2, 1970, pp. 226–236.
  • André F. Barbosa, Valdemar K. Delhey, Eugene V. Coan: Molluscan Names And Malacological Contributions Of Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907-1970) With A Brief Biography, Malacologia, 50, 2008, 265-277, abstract

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Published in: Zeitschrift f. Morphol. and Animal Ecology, Volume 15, 1929
  2. ↑ Abraham Breure, Eike Neubert, A preliminary revision of Weyrauch's unpublished names: taxa of the genus Bostryx Troschel, 1847 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Orthalicidae), Basteria, 72, 2008, 319-330, pdf ( Memento of the original from September 3 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nmbe.ch
personal data
SURNAME Weyrauch, Wolfgang Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Peruvian malacologist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
DATE OF DEATH 1970