Wilhelm Petersen (entomologist)

Wilhelm Konstantin Frommhold Petersen (12 June 1854 in Lihula – 3 February 1933 in Tallinn) was an Estonian entomologist, lepidopterist of Baltic-German descent.

He was the first who paid attention to the importance of the characteristics of genitalia in insect taxonomy. He was an early representative of the recognition concept of species.^[1]

Published works

Die Lepidopteren-Fauna des arktischen Gebiets von Europa und die Eiszeit, Mag. Diss., 1881
Reisebriefe aus Transkaukasien und Armenien, 1884
Fauna baltica, Band I: Rhopalocera, 1890
Über indifferente Charaktere als Artmerkmale. Zur Frage der geschlechtlichen Zuchtwahl
Eesti päevaliblikad. Systematische Bearbeitung der Tagfalter Estlands, 1927
Lepidopteren-Fauna von Estland, 2 Bände, 1924
Die Blattminierer-Gattungen Lithocolletis und Nepticula, 2 Bände, 1927-1929

References

^ Tammaru, Toomas 1993. Wilhelm Petersen as a biologist-theoretician. In: Kull, K.; Tiivel, T. (eds.), Lectures in Theoretical Biology: The Second Stage. Tallinn: Estonian Academy of Sciences, 122–128.

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[1] Tammaru, Toomas 1993. Wilhelm Petersen as a biologist-theoretician. In: Kull, K.; Tiivel, T. (eds.), Lectures in Theoretical Biology: The Second Stage. Tallinn: Estonian Academy of Sciences, 122–128.

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