Staff of the Lepidoptera Section
Scientific staff
Dr. Axel Hausmann
- Section leader
- Tel.: +49-(0)89-8107 158
- E-Mail: Axel.Hausmann@zsm.mwn.de
- Research: Geometridae worldwide. - Geometrinae, Sterrhinae
- Publications
- Forum Herbulot
- New species/patronyms
Dr. Andreas Segerer
- Tel.: +49-(0)89-8107 151
- E-Mail: Andreas.Segerer@zsm.mwn.de
- Research: Microlepidoptera of Bavaria, Systematics and Taxonomy of Phycitinae
- Publications
Technical staff
Ulf Buchsbaum
- Tel.: +49-(0)89-8107 152
- E-Mail: UlfBuchsbaum.Lepidoptera @zsm.mwn.de
- Research: Microlepidoptera (Oecophoridae s. l.) and Drepanidae, in particular fauna of Southeast Asia; insect fauna of Thuringia
- Publications
Maria Sperlich
- Tel.: +49-(0)89-8107 150
- Preparation, in particular Geometridae, Noctuidae; computer based inventory of the collection; curation of the collection.
Students
Marius Junker
- Thesis title: Die Phylogenie der Sterrhinae mit Fokus auf die rasterelektronenmikroskopische Analyse der Eioberfläche.
Research associates
Gottfried Behounek
- Sudetenstrasse 6
- 85567 Grafing bei München, Deutschland
- Tel.: +49(0)89-08092-857892
- Research: Noctuidae, in particular Noctuidae of Southeast Asia and South America.
- Board member of the "Münchner Entomologische Gesellschaft e.V.".
- Publications
Dr. Ulf Eitschberger
- Humboldtstr. 13A
- 95168 Marktleuthen
- Tel.: +49-(0)9285-480
- Fax: +49-(0)9285-8238
- Research: butterflies, Bombyces & Sphinges, in particular Sphingidae, world-wide.
Josef Grieshuber
- Singham 42
- 94086 Bad Griesbach
- Tel.: (08532) 923444
- Arbeitsgebiete: Taxonomie und Faunistik der Gattung Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) ab 1993 schwerpunktmäßig palaearktische Region.
- Publikationen
- Patronyme
Hermann H. Hacker
- Kilianstrasse 10
- 96231 Staffelstein
- Tel.: +49-(0)9573-6972
- Fax: +49-(0)09573-6809
- Research: faunistics of Bavaria, later also taxonomy and faunistics of Noctuidae:
- from 1982 mainly Near and Middle East,
- from 1988 Himalayas, India,
- from 1996 Arabic peninsula, Yemen,
- preferably inventories of certain geographic or zoogeographic regions or genus revision. Area of interest: world-wide with exception of the Neotropical region.
- Second focus of interest is faunistics of Bavaria, among other mapping of Lepidoptera of 150 Bavarian nature conservation areas (state forests) (publication in prep.).
- Publications
- Patronyms
- Esperiana
Dr. Sonja Knölke
- Tel.: (089) 8107-150
- E-Mail: Sonja.Knoelke@zsm.mwn.de
- PhD thesis: A revision of the European representatives of the microlepidopteran genus Dioryctria Zeller, 1846 (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae)
- Publications
Helmut Kolbeck
- Zieglerstrasse 17
- 84187 Wenig
- Research: faunistics of Bavaria, Macro- and Microlepidoptera.
Slawek Kuczkowski
- University of Wroclaw
- Pl. Uniwersytecki 1
- 50-137 Wrocław
- Poland
- E-Mail: bugy@konto.pl
- Research: Bombyces & Sphinges, Geometridae, web presentations and databases.
Dr. Hans Löbel
- Wilhelm Külz Str.11
- 99706 Sondershausen
- Germany
- Research: Geometridae, Australia
Michael A. Miller
- Dipl.-Biol.
- E-Mail: Miller@zsm.mwn.de
- Research: Sphingidae, DNA-Taxonomy.
- Publications
Herbert Pröse
- Research: Microlepidoptera, faunistics of Bavaria.
Olga Schmidt
- Tel.: +49-(0)89-8107-127
- E-Mail: Olga.Schmidt@zsm.mwn.de
- Research: Taxonomy, phylogeny, and biology of the subfamily Larentiinae (Geometridae), in particular of the Indo-Australian Region
- Publications
- Image gallery Geometridae: Anachloris, Chaetolopha, Scotocyma
Manfred Sommerer
- Research: Geometridae, mainly Geometridae of Southeast Asia.
- President of the "Freunde der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München e. V." (in German)
Fritz Taschner
- Gnesenerstr. 16
- 81929 München
- Research: butterflies, Bombyces & Sphinges, world-wide, Publication of the book serial "Mit dem Schmetterlingsnetz um die Welt".
Eckhard Wierig
- Veilchenweg 101
- 82024 Taufkirchen b. München
- E-Mail: eckhard.wierig@t-online.de
- Research: butterflies, Bombyces & Sphinges, preparations
Thomas Witt
- Tengstrasse 33
- 80796 München
- Research: Bombyces & Sphinges, world-wide
- see Sammlung Witt (in German)
Former staff members
(with time period of employment)
- Dr. Kurt v. Rosen (1915 - 1945)
- Dr. Walter Forster (1939 - 1975)
- Josef Wolfsberger (1943 - 1980)
- Franz Daniel (1945 - 1963)
- Leo Sheljuzhko (1946 - 1969)
- Dr. Nikolaus Obraztsov (1946 - 1951)
- Dr. Klaus Sattler (1963 - 1966)
- Dr. Wolfgang Dierl (1966 - 1996)
- Erwin Lehmann (1968 - 1996)
