Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer

Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer (22 December 1831, in Vienna – 15 January 1897, in Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist. He was a curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was the first keeper of the Lepidoptera. Rogenhofer was mainly interested in Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera.

Alois F. Rogenhofer, in 1876

Beside him Josef Mann (1804-1889) worked as a keen technician and collector for the benefits of the museum. Mann described many species of Lepidoptera new to science focussing on Microlepidoptera.

Works

with Cajetan Freiherr von Felder and Rudolf Felder Reise Fregatte Novara. Lepidoptera.Three volumes (1865-1867).

Sources

Anon. 1897 [Rogenhofer, A. F.]: Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 33:108

External links

Works by or about Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer at Internet Archive

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