Eduard Voss (1884 - 1974) was a German entomologist,
who specialized in beetles (
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 ...
), in particular the weevil family (
Curculionidae
The Curculionidae are a family of weevils, commonly called snout beetles or true weevils. They are one of the largest animal families with 6,800 genera and 83,000 species described worldwide. They are the sister group to the family Brentidae.
Th ...
). He described many new species and a number of beetles are named after him. Much of his beetle collection was lost in World War II, but some of the remaining collection is held in the
Zoologischs Museum Hamburg.
Some taxa named by him
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Apion subdiscedens''
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Euops tibialis
''Euops'' is a genus of the leaf-rolling weevils (family Attelabidae) containing more than 300 species. It is spread over most tropical and subtropical regions but is missing from America. The centre of its radiation is New Guinea and Australia ...
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Euops viridiceps''
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Pseudomesitodes''
Selected publications
*Voss, E. 1922. Indo-Malayische Rhynchitinen (Curculionidae). I.
''Philippine journal of science'' 21(4), 385–415.
*Voss, E. 1922. Neue Rüsselkäfer aus verschiedenen Erdteilen. ''Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift'' 1922: 166–174 .
*Voss, E. 1922. Kurze Bemerkungen über Rüsselkäfer. ''Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift'' 1922: 174 .
*Voss, E. 1922. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Curculionidae: Rhynchitinae (Col.). (4. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Curculioniden.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 87 (A) (11)
921
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Year 921 ( CMXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* March – Battle of Pegae: Bulgarian forces under '' kavhan'' (first minister) Theodore Sigritsa defeat ...
277–286.
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*Voss, E. 1970: Attelabidae, Curculionidae. (Ergebnisse des Forschungsunternehmens Nepal Himalaya). ''Nachtrag. Khumbu Himal'', 3(3): 444–456.
*Voss, E. (1971) Beschreibung von vier Cossoninen, nebst je einer Gattung und Untergattung (Col., Curc.). (Beitrag 209 zur Kenntnis der Curculioniden). Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 4(74), 195–200.
*Voss, E (1974) Coleoptera: Curculionidae partim. ''South African Animal Life'', 15: 395–479.
References
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German entomologists
1884 births
1974 deaths