Alois_Friedrich_Rogenhofer

Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer

Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer

Austrian entomologist

Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer (22 December 1831, in Vienna – 15 January 1897, in Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist. He was a curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was the first keeper of the Lepidoptera. Rogenhofer was mainly interested in Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera.

Alois F. Rogenhofer

Beside him Josef Mann (1804-1889) worked as a keen technician and collector for the benefits of the museum. Mann described many species of Lepidoptera new to science focussing on Microlepidoptera.[1]


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References

  1. [1]
    Anon. (1897). "[Rogenhofer, A. F.]". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 3 (33): 108.


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