| LC control no. | n 79045289 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wygodzinsky, Petr, 1916-1987 |
| Variant(s) | Wygodzinsky, Pedro W. Wygodzinsky, Pedro, 1916-1987 Wygodzinsky, Peter W., 1916-1987 Wygodzinsky, Petr Wolfgang, 1916-1987 |
| Birth date | 1916-10-05 |
| Death date | 1987-01-27 |
| Place of birth | Bonn (Germany) |
| Place of death | Middletown (Orange County, N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | American Museum of Natural History |
| Profession or occupation | Entomologists Natural history museum curators |
| Found in | Notes on some assassin bugs of the genus Zelurus from the collections of the United States National Museum, 1947: tile page (Herman Lent and Petr Wygodzinsky) Description of three unusual species of the black fly subgenus Simulium (Ectemnaspis) from the Andes of Colombia (Diptera, Simuliidae), c1982: title page (Pedro Wygodzinsky, curator, Dept. of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History) Revision of the New World Enicocephalomorpha (Heteroptera), 1991: title page (Pedro W. Wygodzinsky and Kathleen Schmidt) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Dipluren und Thysanuren der Schweiz, 1941: title page (von Peter W. Wygodzinsky) Catalogo dos tipos de insetos do Instituto de Ecologia e Experimentação Agricolas, 1948: title page (Walter Zikán e Petr Wygodzinsky) Subsídios para o estudo da biologia na Lunda : Cryptostemmatinae from Angola (Cryptostemmatidae, Hemiptera), 1953: title page (Petr Wygodzinsky) Elenco sistemático de los reduviiformes americanos, 1949: title page (por Petr Wygodzinsky) Wikipedia, May 14, 2020 (Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky; Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky (5 October 1916, in Bonn--27 January 1987, in Middletown, New York) was a German entomologist who worked in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States; alternate spellings of his name include Peter Wygodzinsky and Pedro Wygodzinsky; he is especially known for his work on the hemipteran family Reduviidae, but also studied several other groups of insects in detail, namely Diplura, Archaeognatha, Zygentoma and Diptera; he worked at the American Museum of Natural History as an assistant curator (later curator) from 1962 until the end of his career; he published in his native language German as well as in English, Spanish and Portuguese) |
| Associated language | ger eng spa por |
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