Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843 – 20 July 1928) was a Swedish

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

Life

Christopher Aurivillius was born at Forsa, Sweden. He was the director of the

Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history scientific collection, collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, Fungus, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleo ...

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

and he specialised in

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

and

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organ ...

. 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 The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns (whose larvae are often referred to as roundheaded borers), are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by anten ...

: 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 Friedrich Joseph Adalbert Seitz, (24 February 1860 in Mainz – 5 March 1938 in Darmstadt) was a German physician and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was a director of the Frankfurt zoo from 1893 to 1908 and is best known for editi ...

's ''Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde'' Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925 and many papers on the Lepidoptera of

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

and ''Über sekundäre Geschlechtscharaktere nordischer Tagfalter'' Stockholm (1880) a work on

moths Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (suborder Rhopalocera) a ...

. In 1922, he discovered the beetle '' Ozineus dimidiatus'' which is part of the family

. Aurivillius was also the permanent secretary of

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences () is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special responsibility for promoting nat ...

from 1901 to 1923.

Papers on African Lepidoptera

*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 Tidskrift''r. 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

References

* 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.

External links

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aurivillius, Per Olof Christopher Swedish entomologists Swedish taxonomists 1843 births 1928 deaths Swedish lepidopterists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences People from Hudiksvall Municipality 19th-century Swedish zoologists 20th-century Swedish zoologists