Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius


Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius was a Swedish entomologist.

Life

Christopher Aurivillius was born at Forsa, Sweden. He was the director of the Natural History Museum in Stockholm and he specialised in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He was, for a long time, the secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. His brother was the zoologist Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius and his son the zoologist Sven Magnus Aurivillius.
He was the author of Part 39 Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae and Parts 73 and 74. Cerambycidae: Lamiinae in: S. Schenkling, Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, 1000 + pages. Also Rhopalocera Aethiopica, major contributions to Adalbert Seitz's Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925 and many papers on the Lepidoptera of Africa and Über sekundäre Geschlechtscharaktere nordischer Tagfalter Stockholm a work on moths. In 1922, he discovered the beetle Ozineus dimidiatus which is part of the family Cerambycidae.
Aurivillius was also the permanent secretary of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1901 to 1923.

Papers on African Lepidoptera