Per_Olof_Christopher_Aurivillius
Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
Swedish entomologist (1843–1928)
Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843 – 20 July 1928) was a Swedish entomologist.
Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1843-01-15)15 January 1843 |
| Died | 20 July 1928(1928-07-20) (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Entomology |
Christopher Aurivillius was born at Forsa, Sweden. He was the director of the Natural History Museum in Stockholm and he specialised in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He was, for a long time, the secretary of the 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: Cerambycinae (1912) and Parts 73 and 74. Cerambycidae: Lamiinae (1922, 1923) in: S. Schenkling (ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, 1000 + pages. Also Rhopalocera Aethiopica (1898), major contributions to Adalbert Seitz's Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925 and many papers on the Lepidoptera of Africa and Über sekundäre Geschlechtscharaktere nordischer Tagfalter Stockholm (1880) a work on moths[verification needed]. In 1922, he discovered the beetle Ozineus dimidiatus which is part of the family Cerambycidae.
Aurivillius was also the permanent secretary of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1901 to 1923.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.