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Residence
  
France

Name
  
Stephan Breuning


Role
  
Entomologist

Fields
  
Entomology

Stephan von Breuning (entomologist)

Known for
  
Etudes sur les Lamiaires

Died
  
March 11, 1983, Paris, France

Stephan von Breuning (21 November 1894 – 11 March 1983) was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, particularly Cerambycidae.

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Career

An amateur working on the rich collections of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, he described 7894 taxa of Cerambycidae.

Works

The complete list of his entomological works has been published in the Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, number 41.[1]

One of his most famous remains Études sur les Lamiaires, published in Novitates entomologicae, 1934-1946.

Personal life

He gave the photo shown together with a text to be published after his death. Von Breuning lived with his wife in a small studio rue Durantin, Paris 18ème at the top of an old building.

References

Stephan von Breuning (entomologist) Wikipedia