DrWilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (26 November 1809 in Stralsund – 18 December 1848 in Berlin) was a trained medical doctor and a German entomologist.
He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in Archiv für Naturgeschichte. When writing in Latin, he latinised WilhelmtoGuillelmus becoming either Guil. F. ErichsonorG.F. Erichson.[1][2] He wrote a paper in 1842 on insect species collected at WoolnorthinTasmania, Australia,[3] which was the first detailed research published on the biogeography of Australian animals and was very influential in raising scientific interest in Australian fauna.[citation needed]
Erichson was the curator of the Coleoptera collections at the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin from 1834 to 1848. Erichson's Scarabaeidae classification is nearly identical to the modern one.[4]
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