Dmytro Zajciw | |
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Born | São Paulo, Brazil | December 2, 1955
Died | 1976 (aged 78–79) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Entomology |
Dmytro Zajciw (Ukr. Дмитро Зайців; 17 February 1897 – December 1976) was a Ukrainian and Brazilian entomologist, notable for his many beetle discoveries and for his collection.[1] He was born in Velyka Mykhailivka, Ukraine and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was the author of Two new genera and species of neotropical Longhorn beetles (Coleoptera Cerambycidae), 1957,[2] Contribution to the study of Longhorn beetles of Rio de Janeiro (Coleoptera Cerambycidae), 1958,[3] and was the first to describe the genera Adesmoides[4][5] and Pseudogrammopsis,[6][7] as well as the species Beraba angusticollis[8] and Mionochroma subaurosum,[9] among many others.