- Johan August Wahlberg
Johan August Wahlberg (
9 October 1810 Lagklarebäck , Sweden -6 March 1856 Lake Ngami , Bechuanaland) was a Swedish naturalist andexplorer .Wahlberg started studying
chemistry at theuniversity of Uppsala in 1829, and later forestry, agronomy and natural science, graduating from the Institute of Forestry in 1834. In 1832 he joined ProfessorCarl Henrik Boheman , a famous entomologist, on a collecting trip to Norway. In 1833 and 1834 he travelled in Sweden and Germany on forestry research projects. He joined the Office of Land Survey and was appointed an engineer in 1836, becoming an instructor at the Land Survey College.He travelled in southern
Africa between 1838 and 1856, sending thousands of natural history specimens back to Sweden. He was exploring the headwaters of theLimpopo River when he was killed by a wounded elephant.He is commemorated in the
Wahlberg's Eagle "Aquila wahlbergi" (Sundevall 1851),Wahlberg's Honeyguide "Prodotiscus regulus" (Sundevall 1850),Wahlberg's Cormorant "Phalacrocorax neglectus", Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat "Epomophorus wahlbergi", and a tree "Entada wahlbergi".Works
*with Wallengren, H. D. J.. Kafferlandets Dag-fjärilar, insamlade åren 1838--1845. Lepidoptera
Rhopalocera , in Terra Caffrorum. Annis 1838-1845. "K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl." 2(4): 5--55.(1857). [in Swedish]
*with Wallengren, H. D. J. (1864).Heterocera -Fjärilar, samlade i Kafferlandet. "K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl." 5(4): 1-83.(1864) [in Swedish]Wahlberg,s South African
Coleoptera were described byCarl Henrik Boheman and O.J. Fahraeus-
*Boheman, C.H. (1851). "Insecta Caffrariae annis 1838-1845 a J.A. Wahlberg collecta. Coleoptera". Holmiae : Fritze & Norstedt Vol. 1 8 + 625 pp.
*Fahraeus, O.J. in Boheman, C.H. (1851). "Insecta Caffrariae annis 1838-1845 a J.A. Wahlberg collecta. Coleoptera". Holmiae : Fritze & Norstedt Vol. 1 pp. 299-625
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