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unusual facts about Arnold Pagenstecher


Pagenstecher

Arnold Pagenstecher (1837–1913), German medical doctor and entomologist


Ornithoptera paradisea

Arnold Pagenstecher and Staudinger both described this butterfly, under different names and the first description by Staudinger was based on a manuscript sent to him by Pagenstecher who possessed specimens from the collection of D. Wolf von Schönberg in Naumburg who had acquired them from a colonist in the then German New Guinea.


see also

Pagenstecher

Pagenstecher's Crow (Euploea doretta), a butterfly described by Arnold Pagenstecher