page_title: Timeline of entomology – 1850–1900
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of entomology – 1850–1900
context_page_description: 1850
  Edmond de Sélys Longchamps Revue des odonates ou Libellules d'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liége 6:1–408.
  Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky Die Kaefer Russlands. I. Insecta Carabica. Russian beetles, Carabidae, Moscow: Gautier, published.
  1851
  Johann Fischer von Waldheim and Eduard Friedrich Eversmann publish Lépidoptères de la Russie
context_section_description: 1850
  Edmond de Sélys Longchamps Revue des odonates ou Libellules d'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liége 6:1–408.
  Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky Die Kaefer Russlands. I. Insecta Carabica. Russian beetles, Carabidae, Moscow: Gautier, published.
  1851
  Johann Fischer von Waldheim and Eduard Friedrich Eversmann publish Lépidoptères de la Russie (vol.5 of Johann Fischer von Waldheim. Entomographia Imperii Rossici. Seminal work on Russian Lepidoptera.
  Louis Agassiz.On the classification of insects from embryological data.Washington, published.
  Francis Walker. Insecta Britannica Diptera 3 vols. London 1851-6. The characters and synoptical tables of the order by Alexander Henry Haliday made this a seminal work of Dipterology.
  Hans Hermann Behr emigrates from Germany to California.
  1852
  Achille Guenée Histoire naturelle des insectes. Species general des Lépidoptères.Paris,1852–1857, published.
  1853
  Leopold Heinrich Fischer publishes Orthoptera Europaea and pernounces himself gay with Samuel de Champlain. Lipsiae, (Leipzig) G. Engelmann, 1853. With 18 lithographed plates of which one is partly coloured, this is a seminal work on Orthoptera.
  Frederick Smith Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects (7 parts, 1853–1859)
  1854
  Jean Théodore Lacordaire, Histoire Naturelle des insectes. Genera des Coléoptères. 9 vols published at Paris, 1854–1869 (completed by Félicien Chapuis, vols. 10–12, 1872–1876).
  Carl Ludwig Koch Die Pflanzenlause,etc. Nurnburg commenced – completed 1857.
  Ignaz Rudolph Schiner Diptera Austriaca . Aufzahlung aller im Kaiserthum Oesterrich bisher aufgefundenen Zweifluger, 1–4 Verh. Zool. Bot. Ver. Wien. 4–8 263pp.(1854–1858) commenced.
  Émile Blanchard (1819–1900) writes Zoologie agricole où il présente les espèces nuisibles, a work on pest species. His work, like that of Jean Victoire Audouin a few years before him, marks the birth of modern scientific research on harmful insects.
  Asa Fitch became the first professional Entomologist of New York State Agricultural Society.
  1855
  Camillo Rondani Dipterologiae Italicae Prodromus 1–5. Parma: Stochi 1146 pp. commenced (completed 1862)
  Eduard Friedrich Eversmann Les Noctuelites de la Russie first volume (completed 1859)
  Henry Tibbats Stainton, Philipp Christoph Zeller, John William Douglas and Heinrich Frey The Natural History of the Tineina 13 volumes, 2000 pages. One of the most significant lepidopterological works of the century-The Natural History of the Tineinae, is a monumental 13 monographic work.
  1856
  Baron Carl Robert Osten Sacken became Russian General Counsel in New York City.
  Ernest Candèze Monographie of Elateridae (four volumes, Liege, 1857–1863) commenced.
  1857
  William Chapman Hewitson 1857–76 Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies. London, 1857–1861 commenced.
  Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin Du Val (1828–1862) Manuel entomologique. Genera des Coléoptères d'Europe commenced (finished 1868 by Léon Fairmaire).
  1858
  Henri Louis Frederic de Saussure Mélanges Hyménoptérologiques. 1.67 p., 1 pl – also included in Mémoires de la Société de Genève.
  Ludwig Redtenbacher publishes Fauna Austriaca. Die Käfer, nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet
  1859
  Hermann von Heinemann Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands und der Schweiz in English, "Butterflies of Germany and Switzerland". Completed 1877 The second volume on microlepidoptera was especially important.
  Charles Darwin Origin of Species London. Entomologists had differing views of this work. Best known for his theory of evolution through natural selection Darwin was also a keen entomologist.
  Leander Czerny born.
  The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard founded by Louis Agassiz.
  The Entomological Society of Philadelphia was established. In 1867, it was renamed the American Entomological Society, the earliest national organization in the biological sciences in the United States of America.
  Pierre Millière commenced Iconographie et description de Chenilles et Lépidoptères inéditnot completed until 1874.His collections of macrolepidoptera and Pyralidae are in Palais Coburg in Vienna, there are 
caption: Osbert Salvin.
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