Hermann Julius Kolbe

Hermann Julius Kolbe (2 June 1855, Halle, Province of Westphalia 26 November 1939) was a German entomologist from Halle, Westphalia. He was curator at the Berlin Zoological Museum from 1890 until 1921 specialising in Coleoptera, Psocoptera and the “Neuroptera”. He died in Berlin-Lichterfelde.

Hermann Julius Kolbe

Kolbe was born in Halle and studied at the University of Munster but did not complete due to problems with health and family. He worked as a teacher in Oeding from 1878 to 1882 and then joined the entomology department of the Zoologisches Museum at Berlin and became a curator of Coleoptera and Neuroptera in 1921. One of his interests was in the Scarabaeidae.[1]

Works

Partial list

  • Beziehungen unter der Arten von Poecilaspis (Cassididae) nebst Beschreibung einer von Herrn R. Rohde in Paraguay endeckten neuen Species dieser Gattung. Ent. Nachr., 13: 10-13 (1887).
  • Beiträge zur Zoogeographie Westafrikas nebst einem Bericht über die während der Loango-Expedition von Herrn Dr. Falkenstein bei Chinchoxo gesammelten Coleoptera. Nova Acta Leop.-Carol. Deutsch. Akad. Naturf., 1, 3: 155-364 + 3 pl.(1887). (Also published as a book by E. Blochmann & Sohn, Dresden).
  • Eine von Herrn Dr. med. Drake in Paraguay entdeckte neue Canistra-art. Ent. Nachr., 13: 27 (1887).
  • Käfer und Netzflüger Ost-Afrikas. In: K. Möbius (ed.), Deutsch-Ost-Afrika. Wissenschaftliche Forschungsresultate über Land und Leute unseres ostafrikanischen Schutzgebietes und der Angrenzenden Lä nder. Band IV. Die Thierwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete. Wirbellose Thiere. Verlag Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), Berlin (1898).

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References

  1. Ohl, Michael (2012). "The primary types of Mantispidae (Neuropterida) in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin - An annotated catalogue". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 88 (1): 97–124. doi:10.1002/zoos.201200010. ISSN 1435-1935.
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