August Morawitz

August Feodorovich Morawitz (Russian: Август Фёдорович Моравиц; 22 August 1837 St. Petersburg - 16 September 1897, Blankenburg) was a Russian entomologist interested in Coleoptera. He became Curator of the insect collections at the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science when Édouard Ménétries retired from that post.He wrote (1862). Vorläufige Diagnosen neuer Coleopteren aus Südost-Sibirien. Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, St. Petersburg, 5: 231-265. August Feodorovitsh Morawitz is not to be confused with his brother Ferdinand Ferdinandovitsch Morawitz (1827–1896) another, St. Petersburg) prominent entomologist associated with the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science.

References

• Baker, D. B., 2004 Type material of Hymenoptera described by O. L. Radoszkowsky in the Natural History Museum, London,and the localities of A. P. Fedtschencko's Reise in Turkestan Dt. ent. Zeitschr. 51, 231-252.