Ernst August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter (5 November 1820

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

– 18 March 1880 in Dresden) was a German

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 ...

who specialised in

beetles 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 ...

. Kiesenwetter's Coleoptera collection is in the Museum of Natural History, Munich and his

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are parasitic. Females typi ...

and

Heteroptera The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. They are sometimes called "true bugs", though that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole. "Typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal al ...

are in

Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden The State Museum of Zoology () in Dresden is a natural history museum that houses 10,000–50,000 specimens, including skeletons and large insect collections. Many are types. The collection suffered war damage and whilst catalogued the database ...

Works

Kiesenwetter's works include: *1857 ''Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands, Coleoptera'' 4(1):1-176. *1857 Bemerkungen über Lacordaires Buprestiden-System. ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift''1:169-171. *1858. Beiträge zur Käferfauna Griechenlands. Stück 4 (Parnidae, Heteroceridae, Lamellicornia, Buprestidae). ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 2:231-249. *1859. Anthaxia plicata, p. 58. In: H. Schaum, Beiträge zur europäischen Käfer. ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 3:42-59. *1859. Synonymische Bemerkungen. ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 3:91-92. *1870 en la Península Ibérica (Coleoptera, Hydrochidae). ''Boln Asoc. esp. Ent.'' 22(1/2): 145–149. 1998 *1874. Die malocodermen Japan's nach dem Ergebnisse der Sammlungen des Herrn. G. Lewis während der Jahre 1869–1871. ''Berliner Entomol. Zeitschrift'', 18: 241–288 *1874. Synonymische Bemerkungen. ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 18:440-441. *1877 with T.Kirsch Die Käferfauna der Aukland-Inseln, nach Herm. Krone's Sammlungen beschrieben. ''Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 21: 153–174. *1879. Neue Amur-Käfer. ''Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 23(1):145-146. *1879. Coleoptera Japoniae collecta a Domino Lewis et aliis. ''Deut. Entomol. Z.'' 23: 305–320. *1880 with T.Kirsch. Neue Anthaxia-Arten. ''Entomologische Monatsblätter'' 19:129-133.

References

*Anon 1880: iographien ''Zool. Anz''. 3:216 *Anon 1880: iesenwetter, E. A. H. von''Amer. Natural''. 14:468 *Anon 1880: iesenwetter, E. A. H. von''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' (3) 16(1879–80):250

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