Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
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| Born | 15 January 1843 Forsa |
| Died | 20 July 1928 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Fields | Entomology |
Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843, Forsa – 20 July 1928) was a Swedish entomologist.
Christopher Aurivillius was born at Forsa. He was the Director of the Natural History Museum in and he specialised in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He was, for a long time, the Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science . His brother was the zoologist Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius (1854−1899) and his son the zoologist Sven Magnus Aurivillius (1892−1928). Aurivillius worked on world insects. He was the author of Part 39 Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae (1912) and Parts 73 and 74. Cerambycidae: Lamiinae (1922, 1923) in : S. Schenkling (ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, 1000 + pages. Also Rhopalocera Aethiopica (1898),major contributions to Adalbert Seitz Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925 and many papers on the Lepidoptera of Africa and Über sekundäre Geschlechtscharaktere nordischer Tagfalter. Stockholm (1880) a work on moths.
Aurivillius was also the permanent secretary of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1901–1923.
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