Adalbert Seitz
Adalbert Seitz (24 February 1860 Mainz- 5 March 1938 Darmstadt) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
He was the editor of Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde The Macrolepidoptera of the World. This is a sixteen volume work with four supplements published in German, French and English. For details see Griffin, F.J. (1936). The first four volumes describe the Palaearctic Fauna and volumes 5-16 describe the Exotic Fauna. The coloured plates are made by 10-14 colour lithography. Seitz planned to finish the whole work in 1912. This proved to be quite unrealistic and publication stopped in 1954. Several volumes remained unfinished.
Consulted collections of butterflies include those of Walter Rothschild , the British Museum, the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle , Paris, the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt, as well as collections in Tokyo,Hong-Kong, Australia, South America & North America.
Sources
- Turati, E. 1938: [Seitz, A.] Boll. Soc. geogr. ital. 70:94
- Tuxen, S. L. 1938: [Seitz, A.] Ent. Meddel. 20:187
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