
Toomas Tammaru (born 3 May 1968 in
Tartu
Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759 (as of 2024). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the ...
) is an
Estonia
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n lepidopterist and professor of entomology at the
University of Tartu
The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country. .
Together with
Andro Truuverk and
Erki Õunap, he transferred the butterfly ''
Epirrita pulchraria'' to the genus ''
Malacodea
''Malacodea'' is a monotypic genus in the family Geometridae. Its only species, ''Malacodea regelaria'', is found from Fennoscandia and Estonia to northern Siberia. Both the genus and species were first described by Johan Martin Jakob von Tengs ...
''.
The butterfly (''
Manota toomasi''
Hippa & Kurina, 2012) is named after him.
He is the editor of the publication ''Lepinfo'' of the
Estonian Naturalists' Society
Estonian Naturalists' Society (, ELUS) is the oldest Estonia-based society of naturalists. It was founded in 1853, and since establishing has been the major scientific organisation focusing on natural history of Estonia.
The society is based in ...
.
References
External links
Home page
1968 births
Living people
Estonian entomologists
21st-century Estonian educators
University of Tartu alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tartu
Estonian editors
Scientists from Tartu
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