Lebensdaten und Heteroptera-Sammlung des Felix von Baerensprung (1822-1864) (Heteroptera).

Abstract

The German physician Felix von Baerensprung (1822-1864) lived in Halle and Berlin. He was a medical doctor and made entomological studies only additionally. Baerensprung described Heteroptera from Central Europe and collected also in the fiftieth of the 19th century in Berlin and Brandenburg. Data on his life were summarised. A list of the Heteroptera species he described and as his publications on Heteroptera are listed. This includes a list of types housed in the collection of the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. Lectotypes are designated for Graphosoma oculatum, Alydus sareptanus and Anthocoris elegantulus.

Keywords

Heteroptera, Baerensprung, curriculum vitae, type specimens, lectotype designation, publication list.

Nomenclatural Acts

sareptanus Baerensprung, 1859 (Alydus), Lectotype now a synonym of Megalotomus ornaticeps Stål, 1858
oculatum Baerensprung, 1858 (Graphosoma), Lectotype now a synonym of Derula flavoguttata Mulsant & Rey, 1856
elegantula (Baerensprung, 1858) (Loricula), Lectotype described as Anthocoris elegantulus