Philipp Christoph Zeller

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Philipp Christoph Zeller

Philipp Christoph Zeller (8 April 1808 – 27 March 1883) was a German

entomologist
.

Zeller was born at

Stettin Entomological Society
.

Zeller's first entomological studies were of

nomenclature was already very confused (and confusing). Zeller's precise, orderly approach culminated in the most significant lepidopterological work of the nineteenth century – The Natural History of the Tineina. This, a monumental 13-volume monograph, was commenced in 1855 and completed in 1873. The other main authors were the Englishman Henry Tibbats Stainton, a Swiss, Heinrich Frey and another Englishman, John William Douglas. The Natural History of the Tineina appeared in English, French, German and Latin editions, the Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday
doing the bulk of the translations. The work established Zeller as perhaps the greatest lepidopterist of the century. He named 186 new genera of moths [3] His collection was acquired by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham[1] and later donated to the Natural History Museum.

Selected works

  • Versuch einer naturgemässen Eintheilung der Schaben, Tinea (Oken's Isis, 1839).
  • Kritische Bestimmung der in Reaumur's Memoiren vorkommenden Lepidopteren (Isis, 1838)
  • Kritische Bestimmung der in de Geer's Memoiren enthaltenen Schmetterlinge (Isis, 1839)
  • Monographie des Genus Hyponomeuta (Isis, 1844)
  • Anmerkungen zu Lienig's Lepidopterologischer Fauna von Livland und Curland (Isis,1846)
  • Die Arten der Blattminiergattung Lithocolletis beschrieben (Linnaea, 1846)
  • Bemerkungen über die auf einer Reise nach Italien und Sicilien gesammelten Schmetterlingsarten" (Isis, 1847)
  • Verzeichnis der vom Professor Dr. Loew in der Türkei und Asien gesammelten Lepidoptera Isis von Oken 1847 (1) : 3-39 (1847)
  • Exotische Phyciden (Isis, 1848)
  • Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Coleophoren" (Isis, 1849)
  • Revision der Pterophoriden (Isis, 1852)
  • Lepidoptera microptera quae J. A. Wahlberg in caffrorum terra legit (Stockholm, 1852)
  • Die Arten der Gattung Butalis beschrieben (Linnaea, 1855)
  • With Henry Tibbats Stainton, Heinrich Frey and John William Douglas The Natural History of the Tineina, 13 volumes, 2000 pages (1855)
  • Beiträge zur Kenntnis der nordamerikanischen Nachtfalter" (3 parts, Verh. zool. bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1872–73)
  • Beiträge zur Lepidopterenfauna der Ober-Albula in Graubünden (Verh. zool. bot. Gesellsch. Wien., 1877)
  • Exotische Lepidopteren (Horae soc. ent. Rossica, 1877)

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Stainton, Henry Tibbats (June 1883). "Philipp Christoph Zeller". The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. XX: 1–8 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. PMID 31715925
    . Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  3. ^ GenusList2

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