Otto Vasilievich Bremer

Otto Vasilievich Bremer

Otto Vasilievich Bremer (died 11 November 1873) was a Russian naturalist and entomologist.

He wrote Neue Lepidopteren aus Ost-Sibirien und dem Amur Lande, gesammelt von Radde und Maack, beschrieben von Otto Bremer. Bull. Sci. Acad. Sci. St.Petersbourg, 3(7): 461-496 (1861) and Lepidopteren Ost-Sibiriens (East Siberia), insbesondere der Amur-Landes, gesammelt von den Herren G.Radde, R.Maack und P.Wulfius. Mem. de l'Acad. imp. des Sci. St.-Petersbourg, 7 ser., 8(1): 103 p (1864).

Bremer's collection is in the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science in St. Petersburg where he lived.

He is credited as an authority on many insects, including the Large Skipper butterfly.

References

  • Anonym 1874: [Bremer, O.] Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 10(1873).