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Andrea, H.K.C. (18??-1966)

Honorary entomologist at South African Museum; worked on beetles.

 
   

Chronology

Date Age Events
18?? 0 Born in Germany.
19??   Student at University of Marburg.
1913   Received doctor's degree from University of Tübingen
19??   Because of lung trouble, emigrated to South Africa and worked under Dr R. Marloth as an Assistant Analytical Chemist. Helped him with his work on plants; his specimens are numbered in Marloth's herbarium series.
21 December 1966   Died in Cape Town.

Andrea spent many years working on the Coleoptera collection in the South African Museum.

Specimens collected

Collected mainly in the vicinity of Cape Town; most of specimens are in the South African Museum.

Publications

  • Andreae, H. 1933. Die südafrikanischen arten der gattung Atys Reiche (Col.). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 94: 104-108.

  • Andreae, H. 1952. Die gattung Monoplius Mars (Coleoptera-Histeridae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 22: 41-45.

  • Andreae, H. 1953. On South African Coccinellidae, species incertae. Annals of the South African Museum 41: 41-43.

  • Andreae, H. 1953. The genus Anobium Thunb. Annals of the South African Museum 41: 44-45.

  • Andreae, H. 1961. Coleoptera: Cossyphodidae. In South African Animal Life Vol. 8 (Eds Hanström, B., Brinck, P. & Rudebeck, G.). Almqvist Wiksell, Stockholm, pp. 198-216.

  • Andreae, H. 1965. A key to the species of Anisonyx with descriptions of three new species from the Natal Drakensbergen and one new subspecies from the western escarpment (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Hopliini). Annals of the Natal Museum 18: 209-219.

  • John, H. & Andreae, H. 1967. Revision der gattung Thorictus Germar (Coleoptera: Thorictidae) III. Teil. Ent. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 34: 145-199.

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