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Dr. Alexander Schintlmeister


Surname: Schintlmeister
First Name: Alexander
Calberlastr. 3 01326
Dresden

e-Mmail: schintlm@aol.com

Alexander Schintlmeister is an Austrian, born on 21. February 1957 in Dresden, Germany. From an early age he was fascinated by insects, in particular butterflies and moths, forming his first collection of butterflies, unaided, at the age of 8.

After finishing school, he studied physics at the Technische Universität Dresden, close to the entomological library at the Tierkundemuseum Dresden where he spent much of his spare time. After graduating with a Diploma in the physics of solid matter in 1979, he completed a doctorate in 1987 with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on the biogeography and evolution of the Palaearctic Notodontidae.

He took part in a two-month expedition to the Caucasus, Russia at the age of 16, subsequently leading an expedition to study tropical moths in 1979 to Sumatra with Dr. Eduard W. Diehl. Later he paid annual visits to many East Asian countries: Japan, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, all major islands of Indonesia (excluding New Guinea), the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka and collected at some of the most interesting “hot spot” localities, discovering many new and interesting species. He visited almost all museums and private individual keeping important collections of moths in Europe and some in Asia. In 1989 he was politically active in the peaceful revolution in East Germany, reducing the opportunities for longer expeditions abroad and spare time for Lepidoptera. But from 2007 he is using more time for Science and less for business.

The Lepidoptera collections of Alexander Schintlmeister (Notodontidae, Lymantriidae and a general collection of European Lepidoptera) include some hundred primary types and some thousands of Paratypes. About 300.000 specimens and 8800 genitalia slides are kept in the author's house in Dresden. The image-collection (including most Notodontidae types, and further interesting specimens from many different collections) contains more than 22.000 pictures. Actual he is working on a world-catalogue of the Notodontidae.


  Abb. 1. J. Lourens and Schintlmeister (right) celebrating the rediscovery of the fabulous Tarsolepis kochi Semper in Mindanao, Surigao del sur, Liangga, 8 km W of Diatagon (8°42’N, 126°05’E) in 2005 with a bottle of red wine in the virgin lowland forest.

Abb. 2. Schintlmeister in 1988 in central Mindanao, Talakag, Mt. Binansilang (7°55’N, 124°40’E), type locality of many moths, including Saturniidae, Notodontidae and Sphingidae.
 


Schintlmeister is the author of several major publications dealing with the Notodontidae of Russia, China, Vietnam, Philippines, Sundaland and Thailand. Among the more than 80 scientific publications there are also papers on Lymantriidae and European Lepidoptera.

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