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Helmuth Holzinger (May 15, 1928 – October 1, 1992) was an Austrian entomologist. He was born in Vienna and died there., In 1953, he married Ruth Raffael, a painter, who painted all plates of his monograph. In 1972, he became editor of the Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der österreichischen Entomologen, where nearly all his publications would be published.
Holzinger specialized in the study of Heliconius and became a world-renowned specialist publishing his works mainly in German but also in English.
After his death, his huge monograph on the genus Heliconius was published by Sciences Nat. His collection of about 2900 specimens is now at Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.




Species named after Holzinger


Bothriocera holzingeri O'Brien 2006
Heliconius numata holzingeri K. Brown & Fernández Yepez, 1976
Phaeostigma holzingeri Rausch & Aspock, 1993




List of taxa described


Holzinger never described a taxon alone, his name was nearly always associated with his wife's.

Eueides eanes koenigi Holzinger & Holzinger, 1992
Eueides tales franciscus Brown & Holzinger, 1973
Heliconius c. c. f. tenebrosa Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968
Heliconius c. g. f. flavissima Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968
Heliconius c. g. f. gerstneri Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968
Heliconius c. g. f. pseudoweymeri Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968
Heliconius c. gerstneri f. denhezi Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968
Heliconius cydno cydnides f. semicydnides Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968
Heliconius demeter ucayalensis Holzinger & Holzinger, 1975
Heliconius hecuba creusa Holzinger & Holzinger, 1989
Heliconius xanthocles cleoxanthe Holzinger & Holzinger, 1971
Heliconius xanthocles hippocrene Holzinger & Brown, 1982
Heliconius xanthocles napoensis Holzinger & Brown, 1982
Heliconius xanthocles rindgei Holzinger & Brown, 1982
Heliconius xanthocles zamora Holzinger & Brown, 1982
Zygaena (Mesembrynus) cynarae picena Holzinger & Holzinger, 1979




References

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