Sergei Alphéraky

Sergei Nikolaevich Alphéraky

Sergei Nikolaevich Alphéraky (1850-1918) was a Russian ornithologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Sergei Alphéraky studied at Moscow University (1867-1869), then with Otto Staudinger in Dresden (1871-1873).On his return to Russia he worked on the Lepidoptera of the Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don region.He also collected in the North Caucasus.After that he devoted himself to the insects, especially the Lepidoptera, of Central Asia.He worked on the Lepidoptera collected by Nikolai Przhevalsky in Tibet held by the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science and those collected by Grigorij Nikolaevich Potanin in China and Mongolia and in the same institution.Later he studied the collections made by Alfred Otto Herz in Amur, Korea,and Kamchatka and those of Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanoff a friend from his two years at Moscow University. He was an Honorary Member of both the Russian Entomological Society and the Royal Entomological Society of London.

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1875–1878. Cheshuekrylyya (Lepidoptera) okrestnostei Taganroga (The Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of the environs of Taganrog) Trudy RusskagoEntomologicheskago obshchestva, 8: 150–226 (1875); 10: 35–53 (1876); 11: 45–50 (1878) (in Russian).
1881–1883. Lépidoptères du district de Kouldjà et des montagnes environ-nantes. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossica, 16: 334–435, (1881); 17: 15–103 (1882),156–227 (1883) (in French).
Lépidoptères rapportés du Thibet par le Général N.M. Przewalsky de son voyage de 1884-1885. Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères, 5: 59-80 Edited by Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanoff. 1889
1905. The Geese of Europe and Asia.London, Rowland Ward. 1905.24 plates by Frederick William Frohawk Also a Russian version.
1908. Cheshuekryle Okrenestei Taganroga (The Butterflies of the environs of Taganrog). Supplément III. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossica, 38:558–618(in French and Russian).