Rasmus Carl Staeger

Rasmus Carl Staeger (1800 - 1875) was a Danish entomologist.

Staeger was born and died in Copenhagen, over the course of his life serving as a judge, financial advisor to the Danish government, and entomoligist, focusing on Diptera. His foci were Dolichopodidae, Sepsidae and Chironomidae.

Works

*Systematisk Fortegnelse over de i Danmark hidtil fundne Diptera (1840)
*Danske Dolichopoder (1842-43)
*Systematisk Fremstilling af den danske Favnas Arter af Antliatslægten Sepsis (1844)
*Grønlands Antliater beskrevne (1845)

ome Diptera described by Staeger

*"Sepsis ciliata" Sepsidae
*"Oxycera falleni" Stratiomyidae
*"Syrphus hyperboreus" Syrphidae
*"Siphona strigata" Tachinidae
*"Dolichopus angustifrons" Dolichopodidae
*"Sybistroma crinipes" Dolichopodidae

Collection

Staeger’s Diptera collection is in the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen.Collection contents online [http://www.zmuc.dk/EntoWeb/collections-databaser/Diptera/dipterasites.htm] .

External links

* [http://www.zmuc.dk/ Zoological Museum Copenhagen]