Dmytro Zajciw
Brazilian entomologist
Intro | Brazilian entomologist | |
Places | Brazil | |
was | Zoologist Entomologist | |
Work field | Biology | |
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Birth | 17 February 1897 | |
Death | December 1976 (aged 79 years) | |
Star sign | Aquarius |
Dmytro Zajciw (17 February 1897 – December 1976) (Ukr. Дмитро Зайців) was a Ukrainian and Brazilian entomologist, notable for his collection and for his many beetle discoveries. He was born in Velyka Mykhailivka, Ukraine and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. He was the author of Two new genera and species of neotropical Longhorn beetles (Coleoptera Cerambycidae), 1957, Contribution to the study of Longhorn beetles of Rio de Janeiro (Coleoptera Cerambycidae), 1958, and was the first to describe the genera Adesmoides and Pseudogrammopsis, as well as the species Beraba angusticollis and Mionochroma subaurosum, among many others.