Helmuth Holzinger

Helmuth Holzinger (May 15, 1928 – October 1, 1992) was an Austrian entomologist. He was born in Vienna and died there., In 1953, he married Ruth Raffael, a painter, who painted all plates of his monograph. In 1972, he became editor of the Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der österreichischen Entomologen, where nearly all his publications would be published.

Holzinger specialized in the study of Heliconius and became a world-renowned specialist publishing his works mainly in German but also in English.

After his death, his huge monograph on the genus Heliconius was published by Sciences Nat. His collection of about 2900 specimens is now at Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Species named after Holzinger Bothriocera holzingeri O'Brien 2006 Heliconius numata holzingeri K. Brown & Fernández Yepez, 1976 Phaeostigma holzingeri Rausch & Aspock, 1993

List of taxa described Holzinger never described a taxon alone, his name was nearly always associated with his wife's. Eueides eanes koenigi Holzinger & Holzinger, 1992 Eueides tales franciscus Brown & Holzinger, 1973 Heliconius c. c. f. tenebrosa Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 Heliconius c. g. f. flavissima Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 Heliconius c. g. f. gerstneri Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 Heliconius c. g. f. pseudoweymeri Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 Heliconius c. gerstneri f. denhezi Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 Heliconius cydno cydnides f. semicydnides Holzinger & Holzinger, 1968 Heliconius demeter ucayalensis Holzinger & Holzinger, 1975 Heliconius hecuba creusa Holzinger & Holzinger, 1989 Heliconius xanthocles cleoxanthe Holzinger & Holzinger, 1971 Heliconius xanthocles hippocrene Holzinger & Brown, 1982 Heliconius xanthocles napoensis Holzinger & Brown, 1982 Heliconius xanthocles rindgei Holzinger & Brown, 1982 Heliconius xanthocles zamora Holzinger & Brown, 1982 Zygaena (Mesembrynus) cynarae picena Holzinger & Holzinger, 1979