Ernst von Ballion
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Ernst von Ballion was a Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, especially Tenebrionidae.

Works

Partial list
  • Eine centurie neuer Käfer aus der Fauna der russischen Reiches Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 43,. 320–353 (1870).
  • Verzeichniss der im Kreise von Kuldsha gesammelten Käfer, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 53 (2), 253–289 (1878).

Collections

His collections are conserved in the Zoological Museum of Odessa University
Odessa University
The I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University , located in Odessa, Ukraine, is one of the country's major universities. It was founded in 1865, by an edict of Czar Alexander II of Russia, reorganizing the Richelieu Lyceum of Odessa into the new Imperial Novorossiya University. In the Soviet...

 and in the Forest Technical Academy Saint Petersburg where his extensive collection of world Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

is also conserved.
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