Franz Ocskay

Franz Ocskay von Ocskö (1775–1851) was a Hungarian entomologist. Freiherr Franz L. B. Ocskay was the son of Major-General Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko (1740- 1805). He lived in Sopron (Ödenburg). Franz Ocskay described several new species of grasshoppers.

Works
  • 1826 Gryllorum Hungariae indigenorum species aliquot. Acta Acad. Leopold. Carol. (Halle) 13(1): 407–410.
  • 1832 Orthoptera nova. Acta Acad. Leopold. Carol. (Halle) 16(2): 959–962.
  • 1844 Über den Standort seltener Insecten. Amtl. Bericht Naturf. Ges. Gräz 4: 181.
  • 1850 Toussaint von Charpentier's letzte Insektenabbildung. Acta Acad. Leopold. Carol. (Halle) 20(2): 6 Seiten. (with Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck).

References
  • Entry in Constantin von Wurzbach: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Bd. 20, Wien 1869, S. 475f.
  • Walther Horn & Sigmund Schenkling: Index Litteraturae Entomologicae. Serie I: Die Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive 1863. Berlin 1928.


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