Nikolay Grigoryevich Yershov

This article is about the 19th-century lepidopterist Nikolay Yershov. For the Bolshevik leader Nikolay Yershov (1892-1928), see Nikolay Yershov (revolutionary)

Nikolaj Grigor'jevitsch Erschov, also spelled Erschoff (Russian: Николай Григорьевич Ершов) (b. 23 April 1837, Moscow; d. 12 March 1896, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.

Works

• 1868. Für die St.-Petersburger Fauna neue Schmetterlinge.Тр. Рус. энтомол. о-ва, т. 5, с. 97-99.
• 1872. Diagnoses de quelques especes nouvelles de Lépidoptères appartenant a la faune de la Russiae Asiatique Horae Soc. Entomol. Ross. 8: 315-318.
• as Erschow, N.G. 1874. Lepidopteren von Turkestan: Stett. ent. Ztg., 35: 386-417.
• 1877. Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus den verschiedenen Provinzen des Russischen Reiches.

Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 12: 336-348.

• 1885. Verzeichniss von Schmetterlingen aus Central Sibirien. Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères, 2: 208-211.
• 1892. Verzeichniss von Schmetterlingen aus Central Sibirien. Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères, VI: 670-672, pl. XVI.

For works in Russian see [1]

Collection

Erschov's insect collection is in the Zoological Collection of the Russian Academy of Science