Alfred Nalepa

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Intro

Austrian acarologist

Places

Germany

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Zoologist Acarologist

Work field

Biology Science

Gender

Male

Birth

19 December 1856 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Vršac, Vršac municipality, South Banat District, Serbia

Star sign

Sagittarius People who share this birthday

Death

11 December 1929 People who died on this day

Place of death

Baden bei Wien, Baden District, Lower Austria, Austria

Age

73 years

Education

University of Vienna

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Biography

Alfred Nalepa (19 December 1856, in Werschetz – 11 December 1929, in Baden bei Wien) was an Austrian zoologist specializing in the field of acarology.

He studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna, and from 1886 was associated with the Lehrerbildungsanstalt in Linz. In 1892 he returned to Vienna, where he was appointed professor of natural history at the Elisabethgymnasium.

He described many species in the field of acarology, and was the taxonomic authority of the gall mite family, Eriophyidae.

Principal works

Beiträge zur Systematik der Phytopten, 1889 - Contribution to the systematics of Phytoptidae.
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Phyllocoptiden, 1894 - Contribution to the knowledge of Phyllocoptes.
Die Naturgeschichte der Gallmilben, 1894 - Natural history of gall mites.
Eriophyidae (Phytoptidae), 1898.
Eriophyiden-Gallenmilben, 1911 - Eriophyidae-gall mites.

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