Gustaf von Paykull
Gustaf von Paykull | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 July 1757 Stockholm County, Sweden |
| Died | 28 January 1826 (aged 68) Uppsala County, Sweden |
Gustav von Paykull (23 July 1757 – 28 January 1826)[1] was a Swedish friherre (circa baron) and Marshal of the Court, ornithologist, and entomologist.
He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy from 1791 and a founder of the natural history museum (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet) in Stockholm, through his 1819 donation of his extensive zoological collections to the academy (now in the Swedish Museum of Natural History). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1801[2] and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1804.[3]
Publications
His best-known publications are:
- Monographia Histeroidum. Upsaliae : Palmblad iv 114 pp. (1811).
- Fauna Suecica. Insecta, Coleoptera. Upsala : Edman 3 volumes. (3 volumes, 1798, 1799, 1800)
Species named in his honor
- The red false black widow spider, Steatoda paykulliana
- The pantropical jumping spider, Plexippus paykulli[4]
- The band-bellied crake, Porzana paykullii[5]
- Scolopax paykullii,[5] probably the red breasted snipe,[6] or short-billed dowitcher, now known as Scolopax grisea
- Tortrix paykulliana[5] – synonym of Epinotia ramella
- Alucita paykullella[5] – synonym of Micropterix paykullella
- Amarygmus paykulii[5] – Tenebrionine beetle
- Colymbetes paykulli[7] – Dytiscid beetle
References
- ^ Brusewitz, Gunnar. "Gustaf Paykull, von". Dictionary of Swedish National Biography (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 November 2025.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter V" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ Cates, Jerry (21 January 2011). "A Pantropical Jumping Spider from Walden Marina, Montgomery, Texas". Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Kongl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar FÖR ÅR 1826". The Swedish Academy of Sciences. p. 356. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ Richardson, John; Swainson, William; Kirby, William (1831). "Fauna Boreali-americana, Or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: The birds". Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ Drotz, Michael K.; Brodin, Tomas; Nilsson, Anders N. (30 November 2015). "Changing Names with Changed Address: Integrated Taxonomy and Species Delimitation in the Holarctic Colymbetes paykulli Group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)". PLOS ONE. 10 (11) e0143577. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1043577D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143577. PMC 4664258.
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