August Fuchs (1839,

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– 1904,

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) was a

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who specialised in Lepidoptera. He wrote Kleinschmetterlinge der Loreley-Gegend '' Stettin ent. Ztg.'' 56 (1-6) : 21-52 (1895) in which he first described ''

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'' and Über die neuesten Lepidopterologischen Forschungen in der Loreley-Gegend ''Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde'' 52: 159 - 173 (1899). His collection of

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lepidoptera is in

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References

*Groll, E. K. 2017: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World. – Online database, version 8, Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg – URL: sdei.senckenberg.de/biografies *Roth, W. 1929 Beitrag zur Geschichte der Insektensammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wiesbaden. ''Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde. Wiesbaden''., Wiesbaden 80, S. 47-50 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuchs August German lepidopterists 1904 deaths 1839 births People from Rhein-Lahn-Kreis 19th-century German zoologists 20th-century German zoologists Date of birth missing Date of death missing