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. DNA Barcoding
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

Dr. Wolfgang Speidel

Tel.: +49-(0)89-27374240
E-Mail: speidel@witt-thomas.com
Research: Bombyces & Sphinges, Pyraloidea, mainly aquatic Crambidae (Acentropinae), Noctuoidea
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.

Research associates

Gottfried Behounek

Sudetenstrasse 6
85567 Grafing bei München, Germany
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

Nadine Bernhard

Mülhauserstr. 13
81796 München, Germany
Research: Snout moths (Pyraloidea) of Greece

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.

Thomas Greifenstein

Am Hang 2
85276 Pfaffenhofen/Streitdorf, Germany
Research: Bombyces Südamerikas, Mimallonidae, Apatelodidae
Chairman of the Thomas Witt Foundation

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

Dr. Theo Grünewald

Klötzlmüllerstr. 202
84034 Landshut, Germany
Tel.: (0871) 68839
Research: Lepidoptera of Europe, focus on Microlepidoptera

Hermann H. Hacker

Kilianstrasse 10
96231 Staffelstein, Germany
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

Alfred Haslberger

Waschau 14
83317 Teisendorf, Germany
Tel.: (08666) 7396
Research: Lepidoptera of Bavaria, focus on Microlepidoptera
Publications

Richard Heindel

An der Lindengewanne 16
89312 Günzburg, Germany
Tel. (08221) 4785
Research: Microlepidoptera of Bavaria

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, Germany
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.

Peter Lichtmannecker

Nirschlkofener Str. 8
84166 Adlkofen, Deutschland
Tel.: (08707) 8722
Research: Lepidoptera of Bavaria, focus on Microlepidoptera

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

Dr. Michael Ochse

Waldstraße 51
67273 Weisenheim am Berg
Germany
Tel. (0175) 29 777 32
E-Mail: diehl.ochse@t-online.de

Research: Faunistics und taxonomy of Geometridae of the Afrotropic and Nearctic region, faunistics and ecology of Geometridae of the Palaearctic region, local faunistics: Lepidoptera in Rhineland - Palatinate and Lower Franconia

Dipl.-Biol. 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)

Rudolf Tannert

Josef-Simon-Str. 52
90473 Nürnberg, Germany
Tel.: (0911) 805030
Research: Lepidoptera of Europe, Microlepidoptera of Bavaria

Fritz Taschner

Gnesenerstr. 16
81929 München
Research: butterflies, Bombyces & Sphinges, world-wide, Publication of the book serial "Mit dem Schmetterlingsnetz um die Welt".

h4>Ludwig Weigert

Gamelbertstr. 2
94526 Metten, Germany
Tel.: (09 91) 7891
Research: Noctuidae

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 Samm lung 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)