Gonzalo Halffter Salas
Gonzalo Halffter Salas, Spanish-born Mexican entomologist (Madrid 19 September 1932 – Regarded as world authority on behavior and analysis of subsocial structures of insects and ecology, biology and ethology of dung beetles Authored 358 works being 76 books and book chapters (3,200 citations in 2003) Enunciated the concept of distribution pattern DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA GENERA Boreocanthon 1958 Eucanthidium 1986 with Martínez Hansreia 1977 with Martínez Melanocanthon 1958 Neocanthidium 1964 with Martínez & Pereira Sylvicanthon 1977 with Martinez Tesserodoniella 2006 with Vaz de Mello HONORS Halffterina Descamps 1975 (Orthoptera) Halffterius Zunino 1984 (Coleoptera) Halffterobolus Martínez 1976 (Coleoptera) Halffterinetis Morón & Nogueira 2007 (Coleoptera)
Gerdt Guenther Hatschbach
Gerdt Guenther Hatschbach, Brazilian amateur botanist (Curitiba 22 August 1923 – Curitiba 16 April 2013) Discovered and collected about 500 new plant species DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Baccharis nebulae 2005 with Malagarriga Baccharis aracatubensis 1976 with Malagarriga Glechon elliptica 1966 with Pereira HONORS Hatschbachiella King & Robinson 1972 (Asteraceae) Gertia Soares & Soares 1946 (Arachnida)
Frederico Carlos Hoehne
Frederico Carlos Hoehne, Brazilian botanist (Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 01 February 1882 – São Paulo 16 March 1959) Son of German immigrants Authored 117 scientific papers Coined the term nest epiphyte Discovered and/or described more than 400 new plant species DESCRIBED ORCHIDACEAE TAXA Valid Genera Loefgrenianthus 1927 Phloeophila 1926 with Schlechter Pseudomaxillaria 1944 Rudolfiella 1944 Uleiorchis 1944 Species At least 133 HONORS Hoehnea 1939 (Lamiaceae) Hoehneella Ruschi 1945 (Orchidaceae) Hoehnephytum Cabrera 1950 (Asteraceae) Hoehnemastix Skvortzov 1974 (Protozoa)
Franz Eugen Hussak
Franz Eugen Hussak, Austrian-born Brazilian mineralogist and petrographer (Wilden, Steiermark 10 March 1856 – Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais State 05 September 1911) First described the pseudoleucites (1890) Presented first accurate reports about microstructure of titaniferous iron ores DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Gorceixite (1906) Zirkelite (1895) with Prior Senaite (1898) with Prior Lewisite (1895) Derbylite (1895) with Prior Tripuhyite (1897) with Prior Florencite (1899) with Prior
Fortunato Herrera
Fortunato Luciano Herrera Garmendia, Peruvian botanist, ethnographer, historian, geographer and mineralogist (Cusco 13 December 1873 – Lima 13 April 1945) Authored over 200 papers and 20 books Proposed the use of Krameria triantha natural products Authored Contribución a la flora del Departamento del Cusco (1921), with native synonyms, varieties of food plants and notes of ethnological and historical character With Russian Y. Yakovlev authored the monumental work El mundo vegetal de los antiguos peruanos (1934), describing the uses of plants in the arts and daily life of old civilizations in Peru (with international repercussion) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genera Aliconia 1921 Hemifuchsia 1936 Species Aliconia guaco 1921 Cantua hibrida 1921 Cassia florifera 1921 Hemifuchsia yodostoma 1936 Mentha muna 1921 HONOURS Auxilliary Member, Academie Internationale de Botanique, Le Mans, France Genus Fortunatia Mcbride 1931 (Asparagaceae) About 50 plant species bears his name LINKS www.fortunatoherrera.org/index.html
Foon Chew How
Foon Chew How or Kuanzhao Hou, Chinese botanist (1908 – 1959) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid genus Muricococcum 1956 with Chun (Euphorbiaceae) Species 116 HONORS Foonchewia R.J.Wang 2012 (Rubiaceae)