Biography

Guillermo Kuschel Gerdes, New Zealand / Chilean entomologist (Frutillar, Llanquihe Province 13 July 1918 – Auckland 01 August 2017)

Since 1962 living in New Zealand

Recognized as a world authority on Coleoptera Curculionidae

Authored over 100 works

Described 152 new genera in Coleoptera (until 2003)

HONORS

Kuschelius Sublette & Wirth 1980 (Diptera)

Kuschelomyia Souza Lopes 1961 (Diptera)

Kuscheliana Carvalho 1952 (Hemiptera)

Kuscheliola Evans 1957 (Hemiptera)

Kuschelioniscus Strouhal 1961 (Crustacea)

Kuscheliochilus Wygodzinsky 1951 (Thysanoptera)

Kuschelita Climo 1974 (Mollusca Gastropoda)

Kuschelacarus Cook 1992 (Acari)

Kuschelina Bechyné 1951 (Coleoptera)

Kuschelydrus Ordish 1976 (Coleoptera)

Kuschelus Kaszab 1982 (Coleoptera)

Kuscheliotes Jeannel 1962 (Coleoptera)

Kuschelinus Straneo 1963 (Coleoptera)

Kuschelidium Johnson 1982 (Coleoptera)

Kuschelaxius Howden 1992 (Coleoptera)

Kuschelanthus  Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 1999 (Coleoptera)