Timeline of Entomology - 1850-1900
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- Edmond de Sélys Longchamps Revue des odonates ou Libellules d'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liége 6:1-408.
- Johann Fischer von Waldheim and Eduard Friedrich Eversmann publish Lepidoptéres de la Russe (vol.5 of Johann Fischer von Waldheim. Entomographia Imperii Rossici. Seminal work on Russian Lepidoptera.
- Louis Agassiz.On the classification of insects from embryological data.Washington, published.
- Francis Walker. Insecta Brittanica Diptera 3 vols. London 1851-6. The characters and synoptical tables of the order by Alexander Henry Haliday made this a seminal work of Dipterology.
- Achille Guenée Histoire naturelle des insectes.Species general des Lepidopteres.Paris,1852-1857, published.
- Leopold Heinrich Fischer publishes Orthoptera Europaea. Lipsiae, (Leipzig) G. Engelmann, 1853. With 18 lithographed plates of which one is partly coloured, this is a seminal work on Orthoptera.
- Frederick Smith (entomologist) Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects (7 parts, 1853-1859)
- Jean Theodore Lacordaire, Histoire Naturelle des insectes.Genre des Coleopteres.7 vols. Paris,1854-1863.
- Carl Ludwig Koch Die pflanzenlause,etc. Nurnburg commenced -completed 1857.
- Ignaz Rudolph Schiner Diptera Austriaca . Aufzahlung aller im Kaiserthum Oesterrich bisher aufgefundenen Zweifluger , 1-4 Verh. Zool. Bot. Ver. Wien. 4-8 263pp.(1854-1858) commenced
- Camillo Rondani Dipterologiae Italicae Prodromus 1-5. Parma: Stochi 1146 pp. commenced (completed 1862)
- Eduard Friedrich Eversmann Les Noctuelites de la Russie first volume (completed 1859)
- Henry Tibbats Stainton, Philipp Christoph Zeller, John William Douglas and Heinrich Frey The Natural History of the Tineina 13 volumes, 2000 pages.One of the most significant lepidopterological works of the century-The Natural History of the Tineinae, is a monumental 13 monographic work.
William Chapman Hewitson 1857-76 Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies. London, 1857-1861 commenced.
- Henri Louis Frederic de Saussure Mélanges Hyménoptérologiques. 1.67 p., 1 pl – also included in Mémoires de la Société de Genève.
- Herman von Heinemann Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands und der Schweiz in English, "Butterflies of Germany and Switzerland". Completed 1877 The second volume on microlepidoptera was especially important.
- Charles Darwin Origin of Species London.Entomologists had differing views of this work.
- John Curtis (entomologist) Farm Insects being the natural history and economy of the insects injurious to the field crops of Great Britain and Ireland with suggestions for their destruction Glasgow, Blackie. Seminal work on economic entomology.
- John Lawrence LeConte Classification of the Coleoptera of North America published LeConte was the most important American entomologist of the century.
- Otto Staudinger and Maximilian Ferdinand Wocke Catalog der Lepidopteren Europas
- Carl Gustav Carus Natur und Idee oder das Werdende und sein Gesetz. Eine philosophische Grundlage für die specielle Naturwissenschaft. Wien: Braunmüller.Important science philosophical work.
- Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte. De Metamorphosi Eleutheratorum Observationes. Bidrag til Insekterns Udviklingshistorie. Naturhistorisk Tiddsskrift commenced. 13 parts completed 1883. Seminal work on larvae of Coleoptera.
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Berge Schmetterlingsbuch Third edition of this 194 page popular classic work with 49 hand-coloured plates. Berge also wrote Käferbuch (1841)
- Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe Longicornia Malayana; or a descriptive catalogue of the species of the three longicorn families Lamiidae, Cerambycidae and Prionidae collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Malay Archipelago. Trans.Entomol. Soc. London commenced. This work was finished in 1869
- Alexander Walter Scott, 1864-6 Australian Lepidoptera with their Transformations.A beautifully illustrated (by Harriet and Helena Scott) seminal work of Australian Entomology.
First appearance of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine in England together with the reappearance of the Entomologist indicates a surge of entomology in England.
- Zoological Record started in London. Continues work of Hagen, but includes taxa other than insects.
- Carl Stål Hemiptera Africana. 1-4, Holmiae, Stockholm. [in Latin, textual descriptions, keys to genera] 1864-1866.
- Alfred Russel Wallace On the Phenomena of Variation and Geographical Distribution as Illustrated by the Papilionidae of the Malayan Region (vol.25 Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond)Seminal biogeographic and evolutionary work essentially laying out the principles of allopatric speciation.
- Carl Robert Osten Sacken, a Russian diplomat, arrives in Washingto, U.S.A.. Baron Osten-Sacken was a prominent Dipterist.
- Cajetan Freiherr von Felder , Rudolf Felder & Alois Freidrich Rogenhofer Fregatte Novara. Lepidoptera. 1-3. commenced.
- Robert McLachlan (1865). Trichoptera Britannica; a monograph of the British species of Caddis-flies. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (3) 5: 1-184
- Samuel Hubbard Scudder An inquiry into the zoological relation of the first discovered traces of fossil neuropterous insects in North America; with remarks on the different structure of wings of living Neuroptera. - Mem. Boston soc. nat. hist., 1: 173-192 1865-1867
- Thomas Ansell Marshall Ichneumonidium Brittanicorum Catalogus. London
- Matthew Cooke Treatise on the Insects Injurious to Fruit and Fruit Trees of the State of California, and Remedies Recommended for Their Extermination.Sacramento: State Office: J. D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1881. A pioneering work of American entomology.
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