Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian entomologist
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer
- Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer (22 December 1831, Vienna – 15 January 1897, Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist.
- He was a curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was the first keeper of the Lepidoptera.
- Rogenhofer was mainly interested in Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera. Beside him Josef Mann (1804-1889) worked as a keen technician and collector for the benefits of the museum.
- Mann described many species of Lepidoptera new to science focussing on Microlepidoptera.
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