Name Arnold Forster Role British Politician | Died March 12, 1909 | |
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Education University College, Oxford Succeeded by Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane Books A History of England: From the Landing of Julius Ceasar to the Present Day, Military Needs and Military Policy Political party Liberal Unionist Party, Conservative Party | ||
Arnold Förster (20 January 1810 – 13 August 1884) was a German entomologist, who worked mainly on Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.
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Life
Arnold Förster, who was born on 20 January 1810 in Aachen, Germany, where he died on 12 August 1884. He was Oberlehrer, or upper teacher, in Aachen for his entire adult life. He worked ceaselessly on entomology paying particular attention to Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. He was a pioneering author on Hymenoptera.
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Förster’s Coleoptera und Homoptera: Cicadina and some of his Hymenoptera (Cynipidae, Ichneumonidae (Cryptinae exkl. Pezomachini und Stilpnini), Pimplinae und Ophioninae (except Plectiscini und Campoplex), Braconidae, Chrysididae, Formicidae und Vespidae) are in the Humboldt Museum,Berlin; his Tenthredinidae, Ichneumonidae (Pezomachini, Stilpnini, Tryphonini, Plectiscini und Campoplex) and Apidae are in Munich State Museum; Proctotrupidae and Chalcididae and the rest of the Ichneumonidae are in the Natural History Museum, Vienna. The rest of Förster’s insects; Sphegidae; Diptera (with many types of species described by Johann Wilhelm Meigen are in the Zoological Museum of Halle).
Förster’s notebooks contain keys and descriptions, mostly of genera of Hymenoptera, almost entirely the Ichneumonidae are in the Smithsonian Institution. They are written in German, Greek, and Latin and contain unpublished information. Some refer to the Irish Entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday.