Samuel Constant Snellen van Vollenhoven (18 October 1816,

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

– 22 March 1880) was a Dutch

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 ...

. He is not to be confused with

Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen (30 August 1832 – 29 March 1911) was a Dutch entomologist. Pieter Snellen was a merchant in Rotterdam. He is not to be confused with Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven, another entomologist from Rotterdam ...

another entomologist from Rotterdam. He was curator of the entomological collections for the Natural History Museum, Leiden from 1854 to 1873, when he retired due to health problems. In 1857 he founded ''Tijdschrift voor Entomologie'', a journal of systematic and evolutionary entomology published by the Netherlands Entomological Society. Snellen van Vollenhoven was a founder member of this Society. He described 9 genera and 471 species of insects. With

Frederik Maurits van der Wulp Frederik Maurits van der Wulp (13 December 1818, The Hague – 27 November 1899, The Hague) was a Dutch entomologist mainly interested in Diptera. He was a civil servant in the Dutch Audit Office. His collection is divided between Natura Artis ...

he compiled the first checklist of the

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 ...

of the Netherlands.

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''Pinacographia'' Illustrations of more than 1,000 species of north-west-European Ichneumonide, sensu Linnaeano Afbeeldingen van meer dan 1,000 soorten noord-west-europeesche sluipwespen (ichneumones sensu Linnaeano) (1880) Text in English and Dutch
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''Essai d'une faune entomologique de l'archipel Indonéerlandais'' (1865)Include colour plates 1818 births 1880 deaths Dutch entomologists Scientists from Rotterdam {{netherlands-scientist-stub