Georg Semper Explained

Georg Semper (August 3, 1837 in Altona, Hamburg – February 21, 1909) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.[1]

His Philippine Lepidoptera are in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main and his Indomalaya and Australasia specimens are in Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden. His European insects are in Museum Schleswig-Holstein, Landesk and in the zoological collections of the University of Hamburg. He wrote "Beitrag zur Rhopalocerenfauna von Australien" in the Journal des Museum Godeffroy 14: 138-194, pls 8, 9 (1878) and Die Schmetterlinge der Philippinischen Inseln. Beitrage zur Indo-Malayischen Lepidopteren-fauna. Zweiter Band. Die Nachtfalter. Heterocera Reisen Archipel. Philipp. 2: 381-728 (1896–1902). He worked in association with Museum Godeffroy.

Otto Semper and Carl Semper were his half brothers by their father's first wife.

Notes and References

  1. Hashimoto . Kei . Schroeder . Heinz G. . Treadaway . Colin G. . Vane-Wright . Richard I. . 19 April 2012 . On the taxonomic status of Tirumala tumanana Semper, 1886 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Danainae) . The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera . 45 . 39–47 . 2156-5457 . 23 October 2023 . 12 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220512225429/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/266480 . bot: unknown .