Victor Motschulsky

Motschulsky's travels included: • 1836 - France, Switzerland and the Alps, northern Italy and Austria • 1839–1840 - Russian Caucasus, Astrakhan, Kazan and Siberia • 1847 - Khirgizia • 1850–1851 - Germany, Austria, Egypt, India, France, England, Belgium and Dalmatia • 1853 - United States of America, Panama, returning to St. Petersburg via Hamburg, Kiel and Copenhagen • 1853 - Germany, Switzerland and Austria ==Works==

Motschulsky published 45 works, mostly on biogeographic, faunistic or systematic aspects of entomology. Many of these works are based on studies of insect collections that were created by a large number of other naturalists, especially Russians who had been to Siberia. Most of his works are on Coleoptera, but some are on Lepidoptera and Hemiptera. He also made collections of other arthropod groups such as myriapods, sometimes describing species under the name of "Victor". A selection of more important works revealing Motschulsky's scope: • • Die Kaefer Russlands. I. Insecta Carabica. Moscow: Gautier, vii + 91 pp. + 9 tables. (1850). • • Études entomologiques. 10 volumes (1852–1861). • • • • • • • Motschulsky, V. I.. "Coléoptères de la Sibérie orientale et en particulier des rives de l'Amour". In: Schrenk’s Reisen und Forschungen im Amurlande 2: 77–257, 6 color plates, St. Petersburg (1861). • • Catalogue des insectes reçus du Japon. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 39 (1): 163–200 (1866). ==Collection==

Motschulsky's vast collection is divided between Moscow State University, the Zoological Museum of Saint Petersburg, the Natural History Museum of Berlin and the German Entomological Institute. ==Sources== • Essig, E.O., 1972. A History of Entomology. Hafner Publishing Co., New York. 1,029 pp.