Carl Robert Osten-Sacken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian entomologist and diplomat
Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1828
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
Date of Death: 20-May-1906
Profession: diplomat, biologist, entomologist
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
- Carl Robert Osten-Sacken or Carl-Robert Romanovich, Baron von der Osten-Sacken (21 August 1828, St.
- Petersburg – 20 May 1906, Heidelberg) was a Russian diplomat and entomologist.
- He served as the Russian consul general in New York City during the American Civil War, living in the United States from 1856 to 1877.
- He worked on the taxonomy of flies in general and particularly of the family Tipulidae (crane flies). Robert Osten-Sacken took an interest in insects at the age of eleven through the influence of Joseph N.
- Schatiloff, a Russian coleopterist.
- He developed an early interest in entomology specialising in Diptera and especially the Tipulidae.
- In 1862 Osten-Sacken published, with assistance from Hermann Loew, “Catalogue of the described Diptera of North America” in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol.
- 3.
- A later edition of this work appeared in 1878, as Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, No.
- 270.
- He published many other papers.
- His work on the Tipulidae included a classification of the family.
- He also studied insect galls and worked on the Tabanidae.
- Osten-Sacken corresponded with Hermann Loew, supplying him with specimens, and translated and published Loew's work in the "Monographs of the Diptera of North America", (1862-1873), Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Nos.
- 6, 171, 219, 256.
- He proposed the term chaetotaxy.
- Asteroid 335 Roberta is named in his honour.
- A subspecies of North American snake, Thamnophis sauritus sackenii, was named in his honour by Robert Kennicott in 1859.
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