Dr Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (26 November 1809 in Stralsund – 18 December 1848 in Berlin) was a trained medical doctor and a German entomologist.
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He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in Archiv für Naturgeschichte. When writing in Latin, he latinised Wilhelm to Guillelmus becoming either Guil. F. Erichson or G.F. Erichson.[1][2] He wrote a paper in 1842 on insect species collected at Woolnorth in Tasmania, Australia,[3] which was the first detailed research published on the biogeography of Australian animals and was very influential in raising scientific interest in Australian fauna.[citation needed]
Erichson was the curator of the Coleoptera collections at the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin from 1834 to 1848. Erichson's Scarabaeidae classification is nearly identical to the modern one.[4]
Works
edit- Genera Dytiscorum. Berlin (1832)
- Die Käfer der Mark Brandenburg. Two volumes Berlin (1837-1839) Click for pdf:[1]
- Genera et species Staphylinorum insectorum. Berlin 1839-1840)
- Entomographien. Berlin (1840)
- 1839: IX. Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 5(2): 281–375. PDF
- 1842: Beitrag zur Insecten-Fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8: 83-287. PDF
- Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen auf dem Gebiete der Entomologie. Berlin (1838)
- Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands. Berlin (1845-1848)[5]
References
edit- ^ G.F. Erichson (1840). "Genera et species Staphylinorum insectorum coleopterorum familiae" (PDF). Entomologische Zeitung (in German). 1: 12–13. Wikidata Q107080494. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2022.
- ^ Guil. F. Erichson (1840), Genera et species staphylinorum insectorum Coleopterorum familiae (in Latin), Berlin: F.H. Morin, doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.59644, LCCN agr04003530, OCLC 4305216, OL 21776606M, Wikidata Q51482079
- ^ Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (1842). "Beitrag zur Insecten -Fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in German). 8 (1): 83–287. ISSN 0365-6136. Wikidata Q113548131.
- ^ "Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson". museum.unl.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
- ^ Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands Biodiversity Heritage Library, Retrieved 2 January 2014