Edmund Reitter

For the Austrian sculptor, see Edmund Reitter (sculptor).

Edmund Reitter
Born	(1845-10-22)22 October 1845 Mohelnice, Moravia
Died	15 March 1920(1920-03-15) (aged 74) Paskov, Moravia
Scientific career
Fields	Entomology

Life Cycle of Rhinoceros Scarab; from Edmund Reitter's Fauna Germanica. Die Käfer des Deutschen Reiches. Band II (1909)

Edmund Reitter (22 October 1845 – 15 March 1920) was an Austrian entomologist, writer and a collector.

Biography

Edmund Reitter was best known as an expert on the beetles of the Palaearctic. He was an imperial advisor and editor of the "Wiener Entomologischen Zeitung", (Vienna Entomological Gazette). In addition he was a member and honorary member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie in Berlin, the Vereins für schlesische Insektenkunde in Breslau, the Museum Francisco-Carolinum in Linz, the Vereins für Naturkunde (Association for Natural History) in Austria, the Société entomologique de Russie in Saint Petersburg, the Société royale entomologique d’Égypte and the Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging in Rotterdam.

As a corresponding member he worked with the Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Troppau, the Socíetas pro Fauna et Flora fennica in Helsinki und the Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural in Madrid.

His beetle collection is preserved in the Natural History Museum in Budapest. It contains more than 30,000 species including 5,000 type specimens.

Works

• Die Käfer des Deutschen Reiches 5 Bände, Stuttgart K. G. Lutz 1908 - 1917 (digital: Edmund Reitter: Fauna Germanica - Die Käfer des Deutschen Reiches, Digitale Bibliothek Band 134, Directmnedia Publishing GmbH, Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-89853-534-7)

Gallery

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  Lucanidae. Plate from Die Käfer
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  Carabidae. Plate from Die Käfer
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  Dytiscidae. Plate from Die Käfer
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  Leg of a beetle. Plate from Die Käfer

Sources

• Guido Nonveiller (2001). Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia. Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb) : 390 pp.

External links

• Fauna Germanica - Die Käfer des Deutschen Reiches at Biolib.de

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• Coleoptera collection in Budapest

See also: Reitter