Leander Czerny

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Leander (Franz) Czerny (4 October 1859 in Modrice- 22 November 1944 in Pettenbach[1], Austria),was a Czech entomologist mainly interested in Diptera .

Czerny, who wrote extensively on Diptera between 1900 and 1939, describing many genera and species was a major contributor to Erwin Lindner's Die Fliegen der paläarktischen Region (the Flies of the Palaearctic Region) the most significant work on the group in the 20th century.He was Abbott of the Benedictine abbey at Kremsmuenster from 1905-1929 and collecting there as well as in Pettenbach, Upper Daunube. As well as Diptera he collected Lepidoptera. His collection of both is now in the Natural History Museum in Vienna.

Czerny wrote the sections on tehe families:-

Helomyzidae , Trichoscelidae , Chiromyidae (1927)

Anthomyzidae, Opomyzidae , Tethinidae , Clusiidae (1928)

Micropezidae (Tylidae), Neridrinae , Platypezidae (as Clythiidae) , Dryomyzidae , Neottiophilidae (1930)

Lauxaniidae ( Sapromyzidae ) (1932)

Musidoridae ( Lonchopteridae ), Lonchaeidae (1934)

Chamaemyiidae ( Ochthiphilidae ) (1936)

[edit] External links

• Biography (in German)

• Website on Czerny (in German but listing his publications)

• Czech and Slovak Dipterological Literature 1758-1965