Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre

Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre (14 July 1850 – 6 April 1928) was an Austrian taxonomist, entomologist and botanist.

Dalla Torre was born in Kitzbühel, Tyrol. He studied natural sciences at the University of Innsbruck. He then worked in the University as an entomologist and in 1895 became professor of zoology at the University of Innsbruck. ^[1] He died in Innsbruck, aged 77.

Works

Partial List

Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. vol. 1-10. Leipzig 1894-
with Anton Hartinger [Ill.] Atlas der Alpenflora. Wien: Verl. d. Dt. u. Österr. Alpenvereins, 1882-1884
Die Alpenpflanzen im Wissensschatz der deutschen Alpenbewohner (1905)
with Ludwig von Sarnthein Flora der gefürsteten Grafschaft Tirol, des Landes Vorarlberg und des Fürstentums Liechtenstein, (1900-1913).
with Heinrich von Ficker Klimatographie von Tirol und Vorarlberg. Wien: Gerold, 1909.
Genera Siphonogamarum

For other Catalogues of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera and other works see Links

The standard author abbreviation Dalla Torre is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre in the German National Library catalogue
Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre in Austria-Forum (in German) (at AEIOU)
BHL Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus Lipsiae, G. Engelmann,1892-1902. Volumes 6, 8 and 9
BHL Cynipidae, bearbeitet von dr. K. W. von Dalla Torre und prof. dr. J. J. Kieffer Series: Das Tierreich, 24. lfg. Hymenoptera Berlin,R. Friedländer und Sohn,1910
BHL Handwörterbuch der Zoologie. Unter Mitwirkung von Prof. Dr. von Dalla Torre, bearb. von Dr. Friedrich Knauer with Friedrich Carl Knauer Stuttgart,F. Enke,1887.

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