Rudolf Ludwig Meyer-Dür

Rudolf Ludwig Meyer-Dür ( August 12, 1812, Burgdorf – March 2, 1885, Zürich) was a Swiss entomologist who specialised in Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Neuroptera He was a founder Member of the Swiss Entomological Society (Société Entomologique Suisse).

Rudolf Ludwig Meyer-Dur

For most of his life he lived in Burgdorf and he worked mainly on the Swiss insect fauna but in 1859 he accompanied Jules Pictet on a collecting trip to Spain. He also collected in the South of France.

Insect specimens collected by Meyer-Dür are variously disposed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology Cambridge Massachusetts, State Museum of Zoology, Dresden , Natural History Museum of Bern , University of Zurich Zoology Museum UZZM, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Works

Partial list

Meyer-Dür, L. R., 1843 Verzeichnis der in der Schweiz einhimischen Rhynchoten (Hemiptera Linn.).Erstes Heft. Die Familie der Capsini. Jent und Gassmann, Solothurn. X + 11–116 + IV pp., 7 plates.
Meyer-Dür, L. R., 1870 Hemipterologisches. Zwei neue Capsiden nebst Bemerkungen über die Gruppe der grunen Lygus Arten. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 3: 206–210.
Meyer-Dur, L. R. 1871. Die Psylloden. Mittheilungen der Schweizer entomologischen Gesellschaft 3: 377–406.

References

Anonym 1885: [Meyer-Dur, L. R.] The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Third Series, London 21, pp. 259
Mac Lachlan, R. 1885: [Meyer-Dur, L. R.] (The) Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for the Year 1885, London, 10001,

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