Eduard Becher

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Eduard Becher (30 September 1856 , Vienna - 11 November 1886 , Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist who worked on Diptera. He wrote Zur Kenntnis der Kopfbildung der Dipteren in English Contribution to knowledge of the head formation of the Diptera Wien ent. Zeitung, 1: 49-54 (1882).n this work he founded the divisions of the Cyclorrhapha Aschiza and Schizophora, basing this division.was on differences in the frontal region of the head. Aschiza have no ptilinum or associated suture Schizophora have both ptilinum and its suture. Becher's collection of Austrian Diptera is in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.

[edit] Other Work

• 1886. Insecten von Jan Mayen. Beobachtungs-Ergebnisse, Osterreichischen Polarstation Jan Mayen 3: 59-66.

[edit] References

• Anonym 1887: [Becher, E.] Leopoldina 23: 53
• Anonym 1887: [Biographien] Zool. Anz. 10:152
• Contreras-Lichtenberg, R. 2003: Die Geschichte der Dipterologie am Wiener Naturhistorischen Museum. Denisia 8 47-55.
• Evenhuis, N. L. 1997: Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum (1758-1930). Volume 1 (A-K); Volume 2 (L-Z). Leiden, Backhuys Publishers.
• Mik, J. 1886: [Becher, E.] Wien. ent. Ztg. 5:352
• Steindachner 1897: [Becher, E.] Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. 2:7-9