Heinrich Hugo Karny
Heinrich Hugo Karny was an Austrian physician and entomologist who specialised in Thysanoptera and Orthoptera.
He was a friend of Lucien Chopard and they were regular correspondents during Karny’s medical work in the Dutch East Indies. Karny was born in Mödling and died in Kroisbach.
Collections
Karny’s collection is shared. Parts are in the Swedish Museum of Natural History, other parts are in Buitenzorg Zoological Museum ; National University of Singapore Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research ; Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz ; Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt and the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.Works
- Revision der Gattung Heliothrips Haliday. Entomologische Rundschau 28: 179–182
- Beitrag zur Thysanopteren-Fauna von Neu Guinea und Neu-Britannien. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin 79: 123–136
- Zur Systematik der Orthopteroiden Insekten, Thysanoptera. Treubia 1: 211–269
- Beiträge zur Malayischen Thysanopterenfauna. VI. Malayische Rindenthripse, gesammelt von Dr. N.A. Kemner. Treubia 3: 277–380 Beiträge zur Malayischen Thysanopterenfauna. Parts VI–IX. Treubia 3 .Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. Gryllacridae. 1929.
- A revision of the South African Gryllacridae Ann. S. Afr. Mus..Orthoptera. Fam. Gryllacrididae. Wysman’s Genera Insectorum 206: 317pp