Gustav Wilhelm Belfrage (c. 1834–1882) was an American insect collector. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden, but travelled to the United States in 1860 where he settled in Bosque County, Texas.[1][2][3]
Gustav Wilhelm Belfrage | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1834 |
| Died | 1882 |
| Nationality | American |
Belfrage collected thousands of insect specimens near his home and sold them to collectors and scientists all over the world.[3] Many species were first described based on specimens he collected.[2][4][5] Scientists sometimes named these newly described species after him, such as the moth Caloptilia belfragella[4] and the beetle Peploglyptus belfragei.[5]
References
edit- ^ Gustav Wilhelm Belfrage at the SIA archives.
- ^ a b Leon F. Harvey (1875). "On Texan Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Belfrage". Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 3: 3–16. ISSN 0096-4131. Wikidata Q93561883.
- ^ a b Mary Colwick Orbeck (1987). "Gustaf W. Belfrage, Texas Entomologist". Swedish American Genealogist. 7 (1): 27–31. Wikidata Q123420583.
- ^ a b V. T. Chambers (January 1875). "TINEINA FROM TEXAS". The Canadian Entomologist. 7 (1): 7–12. doi:10.4039/ENT77-1. ISSN 0008-347X. Wikidata Q100275988.
- ^ a b John L. Leconte (1880). "Short Studies of North American Coleoptera". Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 8 (3/4): 163. doi:10.2307/25076392. ISSN 1945-516X. JSTOR 25076392. Wikidata Q56191364.
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