LieftinckMA

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Lieftinck, Maurits Anne

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Born: 1904, Amsterdam, Holland.

career:

Entomologist, studying for several years at Amsterdam University; since 1929 on the staff of the Buitenzorg Zoological Museum, from 1940 onwards Head of that institution.

Author of many entomological papers.

Collecting localities:

Karimoendjawa Islands (1930; collected by Karta, see there); W. Java: G. Pantjar (Aug. 1931); S. Sumatra, Lampong Districts (Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935); G. Tanggamoes¹ (Jan. 1-2) and the ‘Giesting’; W. Java: Telagasaät (Poentjak) (Febr. 3, 1935); S. Sumatra: Lampong Districts, ‘Giesting’ (end of Dec. 1939).

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: 49 specimens from S. Sumatra and very few from Java.

literature:

(1) M.A. Lieftinck: ‘De sneeuwkoningin van Tanggamoes’ (Gedenkboek Dr J. P. Thysse, De Levende Natuur 1935, p. 167-169).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Lieftinck, Maurits Anne
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1904, Amsterdam, Holland.
	career: Entomologist, studying for several years at Amsterdam University; since 1929 on the staff of the Buitenzorg Zoological Museum, from 1940 onwards Head of that institution. Author of many entomological papers.
	Collecting localities: Karimoendjawa Islands (1930; collected by Karta, see there); W. Java: G. Pantjar (Aug. 1931); S. Sumatra, Lampong Districts (Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935); G. Tanggamoes¹ (Jan. 1-2) and the ‘Giesting’; W. Java: Telagasaät (Poentjak) (Febr. 3, 1935); S. Sumatra: Lampong Districts, ‘Giesting’ (end of Dec. 1939).
	collections: Herb. Bog. [BO]: 49 specimens from S. Sumatra and very few from Java.
	literature: (1) M.A. Lieftinck: ‘De sneeuwkoningin van Tanggamoes’ (Gedenkboek Dr J. P. Thysse, De Levende Natuur 1935, p. 167-169).