Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt Explained

Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt (10 November 1862 in Striegau – 26 May 1936) was a German entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. Niepelt was an insect dealer in Zirlau (located near Świebodzice).^[1] He is commemorated with insects having the specific epithet of niepeltiana,^[2] an example being Phragmatobia niepeltiana, a moth species circumscribed by Embrik Strand in 1919.^[3]

Publications

Very partial list (examples)

• Neue südamerikanische Papilionen - Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift 52(4), pp. [208- 210, 2 figs.] (1907)
• Neue paläarktische Macrolepidopteren. Int. Ent. Ztg., Bd. 5, No. 58, S. 274-275 (1911).
• parts of 'Lepidoptera Niepeltiana'. (By E. Strand.) Vol. 1.(1914).^[4]
• Ein neuer Papilio von Halmaheira. Znt. Entomol. Z. 18, 69-70 (1924).
• Neue exotische Rhopaloceren. Internat. Entomol. Zeitschr. 21(7): 49-53 (1927).
• Neue papuanische Papilio (Troides)- Formen. Int. Entomol. Z. 28(7): 69-72 (1934).^[5]

His collection is in the Museum of Natural History Wroclaw University.^[6]

References

• Horn, Walther (H. R.), 1936 [Niepelt, F. W.] Arb. morph. taxon. Ent. Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin 3 (4):300
• Strand, E., 1938 Festschrift. Riga

Notes and References

1. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/library/archives/catalogue/dserve.exe?dsqServer=placid&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code=='PX4092'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl Natural History Museum
2. http://www.globis.insects-online.de/species&tree_h=.Papilionidae.Papilioninae.Troidini.Atrophaneura..363.9748&sub=yes&tree_status=plus&tree_seq= Globus Insects Online
3. http://ftp.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/acerbia/index.html Acerbia - Nic.funet.fi
4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/770729074 OCLC WorldCat
5. http://www.biologie.uni-ulm.de/cgi-bin/litera?lang=e&muster=entomologische Biologie.uni Ulm
6. http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/Contents%20to%20vol%2024.pdf Biol.uni Wroclaw