History of Animals, Book 4, Part 7:

."..Some insects have the sting inside, as the bee and the wasp, others outside, as the scorpion; and, by the way, this is the only insect furnished with a long tail. And, further, the scorpion is furnished with claws..."

Francesco Redi

(1626-1697)

  Carl Linnaeus 

  (1707-1778)

               Carl DeGeer

               (1720-1778)

 Johannes Antonius

Scopoli

(1723-1788)

Johann Kaspar Fuessly

(1743-1786)

Johann Christian

Fabricius

(1745-1808)  

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm

Herbst

(1743-1807)  

 Peter Simon

Pallas

(1741-1811)

Guillaume-Antoine

Olivier

(1756-1814)

Pierre-André

Latreille
(1762-1833)   

Johann Karl Eduard

von Eichwald

(1794-1876)

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876)

Leon Dufour

(1780-1865)

Carl Ludwig Koch

(1778-1857)

Victor Audoin

(1797-1841)

Alexander von Nordmann

(1803-1866)

Johannes Peter

Müller

(1801-1858)

Charles Èmile Blanchard

(1819-1900)

George Marx

(1838-1895)

Tord Tamerlan Teodor

Thorell (1830-1901)

Eugène Simon  

(1848-1924)

Reginald Innes Pocock 

(1863-1947)

Karl Kraepelin (1848-1915)

More photos of K. Kraepelin (courtesy of the Archive of the Zoological Museum Hamburg, Germany)

Horatio C Wood

(1841-1920)

Ferdinand Anton Franz

Karsch

(1853-1936)

Franz Werner

(1867-1939)

(courtesy J. Gruber)

     Alexei A. Birula

      (1864-1937)

 Carlos Christian Hoffmann  

(1876-1942)

Candido Firmino

de Mello-Leitão

(1886-1948)

Carlos Emilio Porter

(1867-1942)

      Nathan Banks

         (1868-1953)            

Albert Monard

(1886-1952)

Louis Fage

(1883-1964)

Pelegrín Franganillo 

Balboa

(1873 -19??)

Jovan Hadži

(1884-1972)

(courtesy B. Sket)

Alexander Ivanovich 

Petrunkevitch

(1875 -1964) 

Lodovico di Caporiacco

(1900-1951)

Carl Friedrich Roewer

(1881-1963)

Reginald Frederick Lawrence

(1897-1987)

Herbert Ludwig Georg

Stahnke

(1902-198?)

Jorge Washington

Abalos

(1915-1979)

Max Vachon

(1908-1991)

Max Vachon, left,

with Pierre Bonnet, right

Max Vachon, left,

with Matt Braunwalder, right

(photo: Marianne Braunwalder)

Pablo R. San Martin (1934- 1969)

(courtesy Carlos Toscano-Gadea & Luis Acosta)

Willis J. Gertsch

(1906-1998)

Eric Kjellesvig-Waering

(1912-1979)

Emilio A. Maury (1940-1998)

(from the web site of Luis E. Acosta)

Gary A. Polis (1946-2000)

More photos of Gary Polis

David Barron's photos from Gary's Baja expedition