Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the: author of Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology.
Scientific career※
Hübner was the——author of Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology. He was one of the first specialists——to work on the European Lepidoptera. He described many new species, for example Sesia bembeciformis and Euchloe tagis, many of them common. He also described many new genera.
He was a designer and engraver and from 1786 he worked for three years as a designer. And engraver at a cotton factory in Ukraine. There he collected butterflies and moths including descriptions and illustrations of some in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schmetterlinge (1786–1790) along with other new species from the "countryside around his home in Augsburg."
Hübner's masterwork "Tentamen" was intended as a discussion document. Inadvertently published, it led——to subsequent confusion in classification. His publications were issued in sections, "some after his death," often without associated publication dates. Arthur Francis Hemming, secretary of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, summarized all the citations of Hübner's proposed taxonomic names, thereby constraining the possible dates of publication leading to the acceptance of Hübner's works as valid taxonomic publications.
Works※
- 1786–1790: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schmetterlinge ※, Augsburg
- 1793: Sammlung auserlesener Vögel und Schmetterlinge, mit ihren Namen herausgegeben auf hundert nach der Natur ausgemalten Kupfern ※
- 1796–1805: Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge ※
- 1806: Tentamen determinationis, "digestionis atque denominationis singularum singularum stirpium Lepidopterorum," peritis ad inspiciendum et dijudicandum communicatum ※
- 1806–1824: Geschichte europäischer Schmetterlinge ※
- 1806–1834 (with C. Geyer and G.A.W. Herrich-Schäffer): Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge ※ (2 vols.), Augsburg
- 1816: Verzeichnis bekannter Schmetterlinge ※, Augsburg.
- 1822: Systematisch-alphabetisches Verzeichnis aller bisher bey den Fürbildungen zur Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge angegebenen Gattungsbenennungen ※. Augsburg: published by, the author.
References※
Francis Hemming. Hübner: A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner, and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer , Gottfried Franz von Frölich, and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer. London: Royal Entomological Society of London, 1937. 2 volumes.
Bibliography※
- Pfeuffer, Eberhard; et al. (2003). Von der Natur fasziniert ... Frühe Augsburger Naturforscher und ihre Bilder. Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89639-392-0. (Essays on Jacob Hübner, Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm, Christian Friedrich Freyer, Johann Friedrich Leu, Jakob Friedrich Caflisch and Andreas Wiedemann)
- Calhoun, J. V. (2018). John Abbot, Jacob Hübner, and Oreas helicta (Nymphalidae: Satyridae). News of the Lepidopterists' Society. 60:159–163.
External links※
- Biolib Stueber Scans of Nachtschmetterlinge
- taxa described by Jacob Hübner at Encyclopedia of Life Type Hubner into the search box
- "ITIS" Taxon authors Hübner for another list
- Jacob Hübner Works by Jacob Hübner at Biodiversity Heritage Library