Augustus Busck (February 18, 1870 in Randers, DenmarkBUSCK, Augustus
in '' Who's Who in America'' (1926 edition); p. 390 – March 7, 1944) was a Danish-American

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with the

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's Bureau of Entomology. He is best known for his work with microlepidoptera, of which he described over 600 species. His collections of Lepidoptera from North America and the

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are held by the

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in Washington, D.C.

Publications

Busck authored and co-authored over 150 papers, among them: * 1902: A list of the North American Lepidoptera and key to the literature of this order of insects. Harrison Gray Dyar Jr.; assisted by Charles H. Fernald, Ph.D., the late Rev. George Duryea Hulst, and August Busck. ''Bulletin of the United States National Museum'': 52. * 1911: Descriptions of tineoid moths (Microlepidoptera) from South America. ''Proceedings of the United States National Museum'', Volume 40, Issue: 1815:205–230. * 1915: with Lord Walsingham, Volume IV (1909–1915) of '' Biologia Centrali-Americana''.

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References

*Gaedike, R. & Groll, E.K. eds. 2001. ''Entomologen der Welt'' (Biografien, Sammlungsverbleib). Datenbank, DEI Eberswalde im ZALF e.V.: August Busck
online database
– includes further references and portrait. *Gates Clarke, J.F. 1974. Busck, A. ''Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society'', New Haven 28:183, 185–186 (portrait). *Mallis, Arnold (1971). American Entomologists. Rutgers University Press. pp. 326–327. *Osborn, H. 1952. ''A Brief History of Entomology Including Time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to Modern Times with over Five Hundred Portraits''. Columbus, Ohio, The Spahr & Glenn Company.

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* * 1870 births 1944 deaths American lepidopterists Danish emigrants to the United States Danish lepidopterists Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science {{Denmark-scientist-stub