Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius

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Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
Swedish
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology

Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843 – 20 July 1928) was a

entomologist
.

Life

Christopher Aurivillius was born at

Royal Swedish Academy of Science . His brother was the zoologist Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius (1854–1899) and his son the zoologist Sven Magnus Aurivillius
(1892–1928).

He was the author of Part 39

Cerambycidae
.

Plate from Nordischer Tagfalter

Aurivillius was also the permanent secretary of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1901 to 1923.

Papers on African Lepidoptera

  • Aurivillius, 1893 "Diagnosen neuer lepidopteren aus Afrika" Entomologisk Tidskrift 14: 199–214
  • ———, 1894 "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfaun von Kamerun. 2. Tagfalter" Entomologisk Tidskrift. 15: 273–314
  • ———, 1898 "Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika" Entomologisk Tidskriftr. 19: 177–186
  • ———, 1898 "Neue Nymphaliden aus dem Congogebiete Öfvers" K. Vetensk Akad. Förh. Stockh. 54: 279–286
  • ———, 1901 "Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika" Entomologisk Tidskrift. 22: 113–128

References

  • Anthony Musgrave (1932). Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775–1930, With Biographical Notes on Authors and Collectors, Royal Zoological Society of News South Wales (Sydney): viii + 380.

External links

  • BHL Digital version of Rhopalocera Aethiopica (1898)
  • PDF Digital version of Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae (1912)
  • African Butterfly Database Complete list of Aurivillius' publications on African butterflies.