Biographies of the Entomologists of the World details

Date of birth: 1966-08-17

Place of birth: in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt

Gender: male

Specialisms: Coleoptera

Collection: Sammlung teilweise im Natural History Museum London und zum groessten Teil im Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Eine groessere Aufsammlung westafrikanischer Kaefer (non-Scarabaeiden; ca. 20.000) im Staatlichen Museum fuer Naturkunde in Stuttgart. In January 2007, Frank Krell was hired as the Curator of Entomology responsible for both the entomology collection and the small herbarium. Krell has significantly increased the activity level of the entomology collection by hiring and training a substantial volunteer corps and starting regional collecting activities such as the Colorado Scarab Survey and the Colorado Beetle Reference Collection, hosting scientific meetings such as the 20th High Country Lepidopterists' meeting in 2009 (Krell 2009) and the current Combined Annual Meeting of the Lepidopterists’ Society and the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica. Approximately 700,000 newly accessioned insect specimens have been added over the last five years. This recent growth was achieved through intensified regional collecting (10-15,000 specimens/yr), accessioning unprocessed backlog material from 1990-2006, donation-funded projects, and large donated or transferred collections (e.g., B. Bartell, D. Bettman, E. Cano, T. Cekalovic, D.M. Fanara, M. Fisher, C. Harp, S.A. Johnson, F.-T. Krell [225,000 specimens collected between 1977 and 2000, mainly Scarabaeoidea], A. Mudge, P. Moretto, S.M. Nelson, G. Opie, P. Tates, B. Vogel, I. Winkler, F.N. Zeiner, etc.).

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