Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch

Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch
Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch
Born	December 7, 1907; Elberfeld, Germany
Died	1970 (aged 62–63)
Alma mater	University of Berlin (PhD)
	Scientific career
Fields	Malacology, entomology
Institutions	German Council of Scientific Research; Universidad Mayor de San Marcos; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Lima; Instituto Miguel Lillo;

Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970) was a German-Peruvian malacologist and entomologist.

Life

Weyrauch was born on December 7, 1907, in Elberfeld, Germany. He received his PhD in Zoology in 1929 from the University of Berlin with a thesis on insect neurophysiology.^[1] From 1928 to 1929, he was an assistant of Richard Hesse, and from 1931 to 1943 he worked for the German Council of Scientific Research doing field studies in entomology and ecology.^[1]

In 1938, he worked as an entomologist at the agricultural experimental station (Estación Agrícola de La Molina) in Lima, Peru. At the time of World War II, he moved to Texas, where he did field work in entomology and malacology. In 1946, he was at the Estación experimental Agrícola de Tingo María in Lima. From 1948 on, he worked for the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in Lima as a Professor of zoology and Genetics at the Museo Nacional de Historia. In addition, he was from 1959 to 1961 Professor of agricultural zoology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Lima. In 1962, he went to Argentina and became professor at the Instituto Miguel Lillo in Tucumán. He died of a heart attack in 1970.^{[citation needed]}

Works

Weyrauch studied land and freshwater gastropods of South America, mainly taxa belonging to the families Camaenidae, Charopidae, Clausiliidae, Endodontidae, Helicinidae, “Hydrobiidae”, Orthalicidae, Pupillidae, Scolodontidae, Subulinidae, and Urocoptidae.^{[citation needed]} He left behind many type specimens in museums, of which he published no original description.^{[citation needed]} Some of his collections are at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, USA,^[2] and the Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand.^[3] He was the author of 198 molluscan names.^{[citation needed]}

Species named in his honor

The following gastropod species were named after Weyrauch:^[1]

Bostryx weyrauchi Pilsbry, 1944
Neopetraeus weyrauchi Pilsbry, 1944
Thaumastus weyrauchi Pilsbry, 1944
Nenia weyrauchi Pilsbry, 1945
Incapora weyrauchi Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1953^[4]

Also, a species of snake is named after Weyrauch:^[5]

Leptotyphlops weyrauchi Orejas-Miranda, 1964

A species of wasp is also named after Weyrauch:

Polistes weyrauchorum Willink, 1964

Two species of harvestmen are also named after Weyrauch:

Chusgonobius weyrauchi Roewer, 1952
Andrescava weyrauchi Roewer, 1957

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Barbosa, André F.; Delhey, Valdemar K.; Coan, Eugene V. (2008). "Molluscan Names And Malacological Contributions Of Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970) With A Brief Biography". Malacologia. 50 (1): 265–277. doi:10.4002/0076-2997-50.1.265. ISSN 0076-2997. S2CID 86648039.
^ "Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch". bionomia.net. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
^ Salvador, Rodrigo B.; Breure, Abraham S. H.; Hannam, Severine; Blom, Wilma M. (10 March 2023). "South American terrestrial Gastropoda in the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum". Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. 34: 57–73. doi:10.3897/TUHINGA.34.98329. ISSN 1173-4337. Wikidata Q119499909.
^ Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, Eveline (1953). "Some South American triclads". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 25 (1): 65–78.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: JohnsHopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Weyrauch", p. 283).

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International	ISNI VIAF WorldCat
National	Germany
People	Deutsche Biographie
Other	IdRef Te Papa (New Zealand)

Life

Works

Species named in his honor

References

Further reading