Castniidae of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Wrocław: new findings from Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt’s collection with comments on Karl Adolf Georg Lauterbach and August Weberbauer

By

González, Jorge M.
Domagała, Paweł J.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-4-23

Original Publication

Nature conservation

Volume

44

Pages

123--132

Subjects

Biodiversity , Giant Butterfly-Moths , Museum Collections , Natural history , Neotropics , South America

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2012-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.44.60261

 

Abstract

Further results of our research into the Giant Butterfly-Moths (Castniidae) of the Museum of Natural History (University of Wrocław) are presented. Castniids of the Niepelt collection had previously been reviewed. However, while curating other sections of the Lepidoptera collection, we discovered 18 misplaced specimens belonging to nine taxa of Castniidae, several of them bearing typical labels by Niepelt. Among them, two are of particular interest, insofar as they are associated with the world-class botanists August Weberbauer (1871–1948) and Karl Adolf Georg Lauterbach (1864–1937).