August Arthur Petry

August Arthur Petry (1858, Tilleda - 1932 Nordhausen) was a German botanist and entomologist specialising in Microlepidoptera.[1] He was a teacher of philology at the Gymasium in Nordhausen. August Petry was a Member of the Stettin Entomological Society. Ottmar Hofmann honoured his name in Caryocolum petryi. His collections are, in part, held by the Natural History Museum of Erfurt.

August Petry

Works
  • Petry, A., (1889) Die Vegetationsverhältnisse des Kyffhäuser Gebirges Halle a.S. Tausch & Grosse 1889 (Dissertation: Zugl.: Halle-Wittenberg, Univ., Diss., 1889)
  • Petry, A., (1904) Beschreibung neuer Microlepidopteren aus Korsika. Entomologische Zeitung, Stettin 65(): 242–254.
  • Petry, A. (1904) Zur Naturgeschichte der Lita nitentella Fuchs Entomologische Zeitung Stettin 65: 176 - 179.
  • Petry, A. (1912) Ueber die deutschen an Artemisia lebenden Arten der Gattung Bucculatrix Z. nebst Beschreibung einer neuen Art. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 26 (2): 111-115. Dresden
  • Beiträge zur Fauna Thüringens Erfurt; Krefeld Goecke (1936). 2 Microlepidoptera, Kleinschmetterlinge. with Curt Beer, Ernst Hockemeyera and Otto Rapp
  • Petry, A. (1936) Beitrag zur Schmetterlingsfauna des Harzes Erfurt, Zu erhalten durch den Bearbeiter with Otto Rapp

The standard author abbreviation Petry is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

References
  1. Biographie, Deutsche. "Petry, Arthur - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  2. International Plant Names Index.  Petry.
  • Groll, E. K. 2017: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World. – Online database, version 8, Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg – URL: sdei.senckenberg.de/biografies
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