Gustav Heinrich Heydenreich (-,
Osnabrück
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- 18 May 1897) was a
German
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entomologist
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Gustav Heinrich Heydenreich specialised in
Lepidoptera
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. His collection is conserved in
Senckenberg Museum
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. He wrote ''Lepidopterorum Europaerum Catalogus methodicus'', published in
Leipzig
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in 1851, in which he described new species.
References
*Anon., 1897
eydenreich, G. H. ''Leopoldina'' 33 113
*Anon., 1897
eydenreich, G. H.''Misc. Entomol., Narbonne'' 5 : 134
*Redlich, 1897
eydenreich, G. H. ''Ent. Z., Frankfurt a. M'' 11 38
German entomologists
1897 deaths
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