Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren


Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren was a Swedish clergyman and entomologist.

Biography

He was born in Lund, Sweden.
Wallengren became a student at Lund University from 1842, was ordained a priest in 1847 and was appointed parish priest at Farhult and Jonstorp parishes. He undertook zoological studies with trips to Gotland and to Bohemia and Silesia, He also visited the museums in Braunschweig, Berlin and Copenhagen. Wallengren was responsible for studying and naming the butterflies collected by naturalist and explorer Johan August Wahlberg at Kafferland.

Selected works

  • Lepidoptera Scandinavioæ Rhopalocera
  • Skandinaviens Heterocerfjärilar: I. Closterocera, II. Spinnarna
  • Coleophorer
  • Fjädermott
  • Lepidoptera nova
  • Lepidoptera rhopalocera in terra Caffrorum collecta
  • Heterocerfjärilar, samlade i kafferlandet af J.A. Wahlberg, Index specierum, Noctuarum et Geometrarum in Scandinavia hucusque detectarum
  • ''Species Tortricum et Tinearum Scandinaviæ''