Johann Andreas Schnabl (born Jan Sznabla, 1838 – 1912) was born a Pole of German descent, and was an entomologist specializing in Diptera. His family moved from Dresden to Warsaw in the late 18th century, hence the German heritage.[citation needed]
Trained as a physician, he taught classes in natural history in Warsaw. His wide-ranging travels included scientific trips to the Caucasus, the Urals, Lapland, the Pyrenees, Corsica, Hungary and Peru.[1]
Scientific works edit
He is the taxonomic author of the family Fanniidae[2] and the genera Spilogona and Paregle.[3] With Heinrich Dziedzicki, he described the genera Polietina, Pegoplata and Villeneuvia.[4]
He is commemorated with the species Mycetophila schnablii (a fungus gnat) and Cheilosia schnabli (a dipteran species) as well as Amorphochilus schnablii, commonly known as the smoky bat, a chiropteran native to western South America.[1]
Publications edit
- Contributions à la faune diptérologique (1887).
- Contributions à la faune diptérologique. Additions aux descriptions precedentes des Aricia et descriptions des espèces nouvelles (1888).[5]
- Die Anthomyiden (with H. Dziedzicki), 1911 - Anthomyiidae.
References edit
- ^ a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. via - Google Books.
- ^ Paleobiology Database Fanniidae
- ^ Fauna Europaea Paregele
- ^ WoRMS Villeneuvia
- ^ Schnabl, J. (1888). "Contributions a la faune dipterologique. Additions aux descriptions precedentes des Aricia et descriptions des espèces nouvelles". Trudy Russkago entomologicheskago obshchestva. 22: 378–486. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
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