Johann Andreas Schnabl

Johann Andreas Schnabl (born Jan Sznabla, 1838 – 1912) was born a Pole of German descent, and was an entomologist specializing in Diptera. His family moved from Dresden to Warsaw in the late 18th century, hence the German heritage.^[citation needed]

Trained as a physician, he taught classes in natural history in Warsaw. His wide-ranging travels included scientific trips to the Caucasus, the Urals, Lapland, the Pyrenees, Corsica, Hungary and Peru.[1]

Scientific works

He is the taxonomic author of the family Fanniidae[2] and the genera Spilogona and Paregle.[3] With Heinrich Dziedzicki, he described the genera Polietina, Pegoplata and Villeneuvia.[4]

He is commemorated with the species Mycetophila schnablii (a fungus gnat) and Cheilosia schnabli (a dipteran species) as well as Amorphochilus schnablii, commonly known as the smoky bat, a chiropteran native to western South America.[1]

Publications

• Contributions à la faune diptérologique (1887).
• Contributions à la faune diptérologique. Additions aux descriptions precedentes des Aricia et descriptions des espèces nouvelles (1888).[5]
• Die Anthomyiden (with H. Dziedzicki), 1911 - Anthomyiidae.

References

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. via - Google Books.
2. Paleobiology Database Fanniidae
3. Fauna Europaea Paregele
4. WoRMS Villeneuvia
5. Schnabl, J. (1888). "Contributions a la faune dipterologique. Additions aux descriptions precedentes des Aricia et descriptions des espèces nouvelles". Trudy Russkago entomologicheskago obshchestva. 22: 378–486. Retrieved 16 July 2021.