Portrait photograph taken in Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Born
7 March 1866
Passau, Kingdom of Baviaria
Died
9 April 1922(1922-04-09) (aged 56)
Munich, Germany
Nationality
German
Known for
Butterfly taxonomy
Scientific career
Fields
Entomology, malacology
Institutions
Private collection
Author abbrev. (zoology)
Fruhstorfer
Hans Fruhstorfer (1866 – 1922) was a German explorer, insect and shell trader and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected and described new species of exotic butterflies, especially in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World. He is best known for his work on the butterflies of Java.
Fruhstorfer was born on 7 March 1866 in Passau, Kingdom of Bavaria. His career began in 1888 when he spent two years in Brazil. His expedition in Brazil was financially successful and led to his becoming a professional collector. After his successful endeavor, he spent some time in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), then in 1890 he went to Java for three years, visiting Sumatra. Between 1895 and 1896 he collected in Sulawesi, Lombok and Bali. In 1899, he went on a three-year journey to the United States, Oceania, Japan, China, Tonkin, Annam and Siam, returning via India.
Following his travels, he settled in Geneva where he wrote monographs based on the specimens in his extensive private collection.[1] Many of these were incorporated into Seitz's work. In taxonomy he made extensive use of the structure of the male genitalia. Fruhstorfer, in these years also studied Palearctic butterflies, Orthoptera and botany. No longer travelling himself, Fruhstorfer employed the collectors Hans Sauter in Taiwan (then Formosa) and Franz Werner in New Guinea.
Fruhstorfer's collections are deposited at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the Natural History Museum in London and the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris,[2] as well as in many other museums.
Fruhstorfer died in Munich on 9 April 1922, following a failed operation for cancer.
The Hans Fruhstorfer Collection
^Martin, L. (30 November 1922). The Fruhstorfer collection of butterfiles : catalogue of types with general account and list of the more interesting forms. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.9515. OCLC 13739152.
^Laissus, Yves (2007). Spécial Centenaire (1907-2007). Bulletin des Amis du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. (230): 12-42. (in French).
HansFruhstorfer (1866 – 1922) was a German explorer, insect and shell trader and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected and described...
Joseph Maximilian von Maillinger (1820–1901), general and war minister HansFruhstorfer (1866–1922), explorer and entomologist Georg Philipp Wörlen (1886–1954)...
Edgar Couchman, 1962. HansFruhstorfer (1919). Johan Christian Fabricius, 1798. Kollar, 1844. Snellen, 1860. HansFruhstorfer (1900). Jacob Hübner, 1831...
of Surinam Ruggero Verity of Italy: butterflies of the Palearctic HansFruhstorfer of Germany: world butterflies, but especially Java Edward Meyrick of...
specific epithet fruhstorferi pertains to 19th century entomologist HansFruhstorfer. List of largest insects "Largest aquatic insect (by wingspan)". Guinness...
large buff hair pencil in 1b. The underside median band is reddish. Fruhstorfer, H. 1904 Dt. ent. Z. Iris 17 (1): 154 "Amathusia". www.nic.funet.fi....
Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. HansFruhstorfer describes: "M. rhetenor, already named by Cramer the 'blue elongate...
Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Pieridae Genus: Cepora Species: C. fora Binomial name Cepora fora (Fruhstorfer, 1897)...
violet. Length of the forewing 58 mm. The larva feeds on Abuta selloana. Fruhstorfer, H., 1913. Family: Morphidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera...
described by HansFruhstorfer in 1912. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. Sithon nedymond nedymond (Sundaland) Sithon nedymond ismarus Fruhstorfer, 1912 (southern...
The specific name, fruhstorferi, is in honor of German lepidopterist HansFruhstorfer, who collected the holotype. The preferred natural habitat of T. fruhstorferi...
family Lycaenidae. It was described by HansFruhstorfer in 1913. It is found on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.Fruhstorfer in Seitz ( page 809 plate 141 h) provides...
Pendlebury, 1936 Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra A. m. chtonia Fruhstorfer Bangka Island Fruhstorfer, H. 1904 Dt. ent. Z. Iris 17 (1): 155 pdf Funet Corbet,...
Busch, English-born American submarine pioneer (d. 1956) March 7 – HansFruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (d. 1922) March 13 – Friedrich Boedicker, German...
Polyphemus was the one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa. Account by HansFruhstorfer in Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde: "M. polyphemus Db. & Hew. (68c)...
paralectotypes of the species. Two other females from the collection of HansFruhstorfer, collected on Sumatra in 1898 and deposited in Vienna, were initially...
blachieri is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by HansFruhstorfer in 1908. It is endemic to Sicily and Malta. The wingspan is 58–65 mm...
vanavasa is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by HansFruhstorfer in 1909. It is found in Taiwan. Hypolycaena at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera...
entomology. Murinus Cornelius Piepers, Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen and HansFruhstorfer. The Rhopalocera of Java commenced. Completed 1918. 1910 Gilbert John...
John Elwes, Charles Oberthür, Ernest Grandidier, Otto Staudinger, HansFruhstorfer, Alfred Otto Herz, Arthur Poujade, Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin, Paul...
butterflies found in South and Central America. The German lepidopterist HansFruhstorfer wrote: "In this magnificent tropical genus, upon which nature seems...
James Hope Moulton, English philologist and scholar (b. 1863) 1922 – HansFruhstorfer, German entomologist and explorer (b. 1866) 1926 – Zip the Pinhead...
Global Information
