Max Saalmüller [SEP] date of death
Max Saalmüller
Max Saalmüller (26 November 1832 in Römhild, Germany – 12 October 1890 in Bockenheim (Frankfurt am Main)) was a Prussian lieutenant colonel and German entomologist.
List of works.
- Illustrations for "Der Heerwurm" of Ludwig Bechstein, 1851
- "Mittheilungen über Madagaskar, seine Lepidopteren-Fauna", 1878 (in News about Madagascar, its Lepidoptera fauna", 1878)
- "Lepidopteren von Madagascar", 2 Bände, 1884/91 (in "Lepidoptera of Madagascar"),
Rhodesia alboviridata
Rhodesia alboviridata, the frosted emerald, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Max Saalmüller in 1880. It is found in southern Africa and Madagascar.
Known food plants of this species are "Carissa edulis" and "Bauhinia variegata".
References.
- Saalmüller, M. (1880). "Neue Lepidopteren aus Madagascar, die sich in Museum der Senckenberg'schen naturforschenden Gesellschaft befinden". "Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt a.M." 1879–1880: 258–310.