Alfons Alexis Ernst Michael Dampf, German-born Mexican entomologist (Dagö Island, Kerthell Village, Estonia 03 December 1884 – Ciudad de Mexico 17 March 1948)

DESCRIBED SIPHONAPTERA TAXA

Family

Ceratophyllidae 1908

Genera

Archaeopsylla 1908

Mesopsylla 1910

Sciuropsylla 1942

Species

At least 15 new species

Described Palaeopsylla klebsiana, the first fossil flea (1910)

Others

At least 10 new species of Diptera and a new species of Acari

HONORS 

Genera

Dampfia Smit 1954 (Siphonaptera)

Dampfiella Sellnick 1931 (Acari)

Dampfaria Verhoeff 1932 (Myriapoda)

Dampfius Pacheco 1964 (Coleoptera)

Dampfiana DeLong & Hershberger 1948 & Alfonsiella Waterston 1920 (Hemiptera)

Subgenera

Dampfomyia Adis 1945 (Diptera)

Dampfitrichia Mosely 1937 (Trichoptera)