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Heinrich Hugo Karny


Heinrich Hugo Karny (7 October 1886, Mödling – 7 August 1939, Kroisbach) 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.

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Karny’s collection is shared. Parts are in the Swedish Museum of Natural History (South Europe Orthoptera), other parts are in Buitenzorg Zoological Museum (Sumatra insects); National University of Singapore Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (insects from Mentawai Islands –shared with Buitenzorg); Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz (Gryllacridae); Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt (Thysanoptera) and the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna (Orthoptera especially from Malaya).


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