Walter Karl Johann Roepke
Deceased Person
1882 – 1961
Who was Walter Karl Johann Roepke?
Walter Karl Johann Roepke was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera
Roepke was educated in the University of Berlin and the University of Zürich where he took his Ph.D degree in 1907. From 1908−1911 he was on the staff of the Experiment Station at Salatiga, in Java becoming Acting Director in 1911−12 and Director from 1912−18 .From 1918−19 he was Entomologist at the Institute for Plant Diseases, Buitenzorg and from 1919 he was Professor at the Agricultural College, Wageningen. He retired in 1953.
Roepke was the author of entomological papers on the butterflies of Java, and Indomalaya and described many new taxa.
His collection of Hesperidae from Indomalaya is in Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden
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