Nicholas Seiler (Apolinar Maria), French-born Colombian Catholic missionary and naturalist (Sarreguemines, Alsace 05 November 1867 – Bogotá 24 December 1949)

Authored 92 publications

Collected and discovered about 300 species between animals and plants (described by other researchers)

DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA

Species

Colias fassli 1944  

Diaethria marginata 1928

Heliconius colombiana 1927

Heliconius leucosticta 1926

Heliconius mixta 1927

Heliconius xanthosticta 1926

Lymanopoda viventieni 1924

Morpho nigromarginata 1942

Papilio oberthuri 1916

Subspecies

18

Varieties

13

HONORS

Apolinaria Rehn 1950 (Orthoptera)

Seileria Dognin 1923 (Lepidoptera)