Johann Andreas Schnabl
Johann Andreas Schnabl (1838–1912) was born a Pole of German descent, and an entomologist specializing in Diptera. His original name was Jan Sznabla, but he changed it to Johann Andreas Schnabl so that it was more accessible to people who did not speak Polish.[citation needed] His family moved from Dresden to Warsaw in the late 18th century (hence the German heritage).[citation needed] Warsaw was the capital of South Prussia at that time.
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]
He is the taxonomic author of the family Fanniidae[2] and the genera Spilogona and .[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[]
- 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[]
- ^ Jump up to: 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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