Robert Latzel
Robert Latzel (28 October 1845 – 15 December 1919) was an
Austrian myriapodologist and
entomologist who published a series of pioneering works on
millipedes,
centipedes, and allies. His collection of myriapod specimens, today housed in the
Natural History Museum of Vienna, includes many
type specimens. His
monographs on the myriapods of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire were the first comprehensive treatments of the large region's centipede and millipede faunas. He named nearly 130 taxa of millipedes (1 genus, 2 subgenera, 69 species and 56 variations) and over 40 centipede groups (2 genera, 29 species and 12 variations), as well as four taxa each of
pauropods and
symphylans. His work on millipedes pioneered the use of
gonopods in millipede classification and species recognition. At least three authors have honored Latzel by naming a genus ''
Latzelia'' (
Scudder 1890,
Bollman 1893,
Verhoeff, 1895).
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