Helmuth Holzinger was an Austrian entomologist. He was born May 15, 1928 in Vienna and died there October 1, 1992., In 1953, he married Ruth Raffael, a painter, who painted all plates of his monograph. In 1972, he became editor of the Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der österreichischen Entomologen, where nearly all his publications would be published.
Holzinger specialized in the study of Heliconius and became a world-renowned specialist publishing his works mainly in German but also in English.
After his death, his huge monograph on the genus Heliconius was published by Sciences Nat. His collection of about 2900 specimens is now at Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Bothriocera holzingeri O'Brien 2006Heliconius numata holzingeri K. Brown & Fernández Yepez, 1976Phaeostigma holzingeri Rausch & Aspock, 1993Holzinger never described a taxon alone, his name was nearly always associated with his wife's name.
Eueides eanes koenigi Holzinger & Holzinger, 1992Eueides tales franciscus Brown & Holzinger, 1973Heliconius c. c. f. tenebrosa Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968Heliconius c. g. f. flavissima Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968Heliconius c. g. f. gerstneri Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968Heliconius c. g. f. pseudoweymeri Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968Heliconius c. gerstneri f. denhezi Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968Heliconius cydno cydnides f. semicydnides Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968Heliconius demeter ucayalensis Holzinger & Holzinger, 1975Heliconius hecuba creusa Holzinger & Holzinger, 1989Heliconius xanthocles cleoxanthe Holzinger & Holzinger, 1971Heliconius xanthocles hippocrene Holzinger & Brown, 1982Heliconius xanthocles napoensis Holzinger & Brown, 1982Heliconius xanthocles rindgei Holzinger & Brown, 1982Heliconius xanthocles zamora Holzinger & Brown, 1982Zygaena (Mesembrynus) cynarae picena Holzinger & Holzinger, 1979 