Georg Semper

{{Short description|German entomologist (1837–1909)}}

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Georg Semper (August 3, 1837 in Altona, Hamburg – February 21, 1909) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.{{Cite journal |last=Hashimoto |first=Kei |last2=Schroeder |first2=Heinz G. |last3=Treadaway |first3=Colin G. |last4=Vane-Wright |first4=Richard I. |date=19 April 2012 |title=On the taxonomic status of Tirumala tumanana Semper, 1886 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Danainae) |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/266480 |journal=The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera |volume=45 |pages=39–47 |issn=2156-5457 |access-date=23 October 2023 |archive-date=12 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512225429/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/266480 |url-status=bot: unknown }}

His Philippine Lepidoptera are in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main and his Indomalaya and Australasia specimens are in Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden. His European insects are in Museum Schleswig-Holstein, Landesk and in the zoological collections of the University of Hamburg.

He wrote "Beitrag zur Rhopalocerenfauna von Australien" in the Journal des Museum Godeffroy 14: 138-194, pls 8, 9 (1878) and Die Schmetterlinge der Philippinischen Inseln. Beitrage zur Indo-Malayischen Lepidopteren-fauna. Zweiter Band. Die Nachtfalter. Heterocera Reisen Archipel. Philipp. 2: 381-728 (1896–1902). He worked in association with Museum Godeffroy.

Otto Semper and Carl Semper were his half brothers by their father's first wife.

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