Franz Faldermann (28 February 1799,

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– 30 November 1838,

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a German

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who specialised in

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. Falderman described many new

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of Coleoptera. His major works are: * Faldermann, F.: 1833, ''Species novae Coleopterorum Mongoliae et Sibiriae'' ; Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 6: 46 - 72. * Faldermann, F.: 1835, ''Fauna Entomologica Transcaucasica'' ; 1. časť tvoria nasledovné diela: ''Additamenta Entomologica ad Faunam Rossicam - Coleoptera Persico-Armeniaca'' ; Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 4: 1 - 314. * Faldermann, F. 1835, ''Coleopterorum ab. ill. Bungio in China boreali, Mongolia et montibus Altaicis collectorum, nec non ab ill. Turczaninoffio et Stschukino e provincia Irkutzk missorum illustrationes'' ; Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, (6)2: 337 - 464. * Faldermann, F.: 1836, ''Bereicherung der Käferkunde des Russischen Reiches'' ; Bull. Soc. Nat., M. * Faldermann, F.: 1837, ''Fauna Entomologica Trans-caucasica'' ; Pars II. Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc., 5: 1 - 412, pl. I - XV. * Faldermann, F.: 1838, ''Fauna Entomologica Transcaucasica'' ; 3. časť tvoria nasledovné diela: ''Additamenta Entomologica ad Faunam Rossicam - Coleoptera Persico-Armeniaca'' ; Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 6 338 pp. * Faldermann, F.: 1835—1838, ''Fauna entomologica transcaucasica'' ; (3 т.) His insect collections are shared between the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, the

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in Paris,

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and the Zoological Museum of Moscow University

References

*Mannerheim, C. G. von 1839
M. Le Docteur F. Faldermann
''Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou'' 12(I) 34-43 *Marseul, S. A. de 1884: Les Entomologistes et leurs Écrits. ''L'Abeille'' (4) 22(=4) 121-144 140. {{DEFAULTSORT:Faldermann, Franz German entomologists Coleopterists 1799 births 1838 deaths