Hans Pochon
Swiss entomologist
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| Intro | Swiss entomologist | |
| Places | Switzerland | |
| was | Zoologist Entomologist | |
| Work field | Biology | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1900 | |
| Death | 1 January 1977 (aged 77 years) |
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Biography
Hans Pochon (1900–1977) was a Swiss entomologist and an authority on Buprestidae beetles.
From 1931 he worked at the Musee d'histoire naturelle in Fribourg and restructured its entomological collections. As the museum did not have a collection of local Coleoptera, he donated his own collection. During his career he gathered some 16 000 specimens of Buprestidae, many of species new to science.
Publications
- Coleoptera - Buprestidae (Volume 2 of Insecta helvetica) - Hans Pochon (Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, 1964)
- Buprestidae collection from Catalonia