Peder Nielsen (1 February 1893 – 16 March 1975) was a Danish librarian and

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 the order

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advance ...

especially

Nematocera The Nematocera (the name meaning "thread-horns") are a suborder of elongated fly, flies with thin, segmented antenna (biology), antennae and mostly aquatic larvae. This group is paraphyletic and contains all flies except for species from suborder ...

. Peder Kristian Nielsen was born at

Silkeborg Silkeborg () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 52,571 (1 January 2025).University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum The Copenhagen Zoological Museum ( Danish: ''Zoologisk Museum'') was a separate zoological museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now a part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, which is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen. The separa ...

. Peder Nielsen
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Selected works

*Nielsen, P. 1925. Stankelben. ''Danmarks Fauna'' 28: 1-165. *Nielsen, P. 1929. Contributions to the knowledge of the Palaearctic Tipulidae. ''Notulae Entomologicae'' 9: 48-50. *Nielsen, P. 1961. Ergebnisse der Deutschen Afghanistan-Expedition 1956 der Landessammlungen fur Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Limoniidae (Diptera, Nematocera). ''Beitrage zur Naturkundlichen Forschung in Sudwestdeutschland'' 19: 305-307. *Nielsen, P. 1961 Tipulidae from the Azores and Madeira. ''Commentationes Biologicae'' 24(2): 1-7. *Nielsen, P. 1962. The 3rd Danish expedition to central Asia. Zoological results 30. Nematocera (Insecta) from Afghanistan. ''Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn'' 124: 165-169. *Nielsen, P. 1967. Limoniidae. In: Illies, J. (ed.), ''Limnofauna Europaea'', Ed. 1. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart: 321-324. *Nielsen, P.; Ringdahl, O.; Tuxen, S.T. 1954. Diptera, 1 (exclusive of Ceratopogonidae and Chironomidae). ''Zoology of Iceland'' 3 (48A): 1-189.

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Museum Silkeborg
1975 deaths 1893 births People from Silkeborg 20th-century Danish zoologists Danish librarians Danish entomologists {{entomologist-stub