Johan August Wahlberg
Johan August Wahlberg (9 October 1810, in
He travelled in southern Africa between 1838 and 1856, sending thousands of natural history specimens back to Sweden. He was exploring the Okavango area along with Frederick Joseph Green (1829-1876) when he was killed, along the Thamalakane river about 10 km northwest of Maun in today's Botswana, by a wounded
Before his death was known in Sweden, on October 8, 1856 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, since the news of his death had not reached Stockholm at this time. He is thus the only member of this academy who has been elected after his death.
Legacy
Wahlberg is commemorated in
He is also commemorated in the scientific names of four species of lizards:
Works
- with Rhopalocera, in Terra Caffrorum. Annis 1838-1845 ". K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4): 5—55. (in Swedish).
- with Wallengren HDJ (1864). "Heterocera-Fjärilar, samlade i Kafferlandet ". K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 5 (4): 1-83. (in Swedish).
Wahlberg's South African
- Boheman CH (1851). Insecta Caffrariae annis 1838-1845 a J.A. Wahlberg collecta. Coleoptera. (Volume 1). Stockholm: Fritze & Norstedt 8 + 625 pp. (in Latin).
- Fahraeus OJ in Boheman CH (1851). Insecta Caffrariae annis 1838-1845 a J.A. Wahlberg collecta. Coleoptera. (Volume 1). Stockholm: Fritze & Norstedt pp. 299–625. (in Latin).
Wahlberg's herpetological specimens were made available by Sunderwall to Andrew Smith, and to André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron. These formed the basis for new species descriptions, including in
- Smith A (1849). Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. London: Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury. (Smith, Elder and Co., printers). 48 Plates + unnumbered pages of text.
References
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Wahlberg", p. 278).
- ^ International Plant Names Index. J.Wahlb.