Gustaf von Paykull

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Gustav von Paykull (23 July 1757 – 28 January 1826)^[1] was a Swedish Script error: No such module "Lang". (circa baron) and Marshal of the Court, ornithologist, and entomologist.

He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy from 1791 and a founder of the natural history museum (Script error: No such module "Lang".) in Stockholm, through his 1819 donation of his extensive zoological collections to the academy (now in the Swedish Museum of Natural History). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1801^[2] and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1804.^[3]

Publications

His best-known publications are:

Monographia Histeroidum. Upsaliae : Palmblad iv 114 pp. (1811).
Fauna Suecica. Insecta, Coleoptera. Upsala : Edman 3 volumes. (3 volumes, 1798, 1799, 1800)

The red false black widow spider, Steatoda paykulliana
The pantropical jumping spider, Plexippus paykulli^[4]
The band-bellied crake, Porzana paykullii^[5]
Scolopax paykullii,^[5] probably the red breasted snipe,^[6] or short-billed dowitcher, now known as Scolopax grisea
Tortrix paykulliana^[5] – synonym of Epinotia ramella
Alucita paykullella^[5] – synonym of Micropterix paykullella
Amarygmus paykulii^[5] – Tenebrionine beetle
Colymbetes paykulli^[7] – Dytiscid beetle

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