Dirk Rohwedder

Dirk during a gorilla trek in Bwindi National Park, Uganda, May 2005.

Dirk Rohwedder was born in 1968 in Grevenbroich, Germany and is deaf. He works as a technical assistant in the section of Hymenoptera (and spends much free time with Coleoptera) at the Zoological Research Museum Koenig in Bonn, Germany. 
He has collected beetles of all groups in Central Europe since 1980 and has concentrated on Scarabaeidae since 1992. In 1999 he began a study on the taxonomy of Cetoniinae and Scarabaeinae in Europe, Africa and Asia.

EMAIL: d.rohwedder.zfmk@uni-bonn.de
FAX:  ++ 49 228 9122 29

PUBLICATIONS:

1. LAMPE, K.-H., INGRISCH, S., ROHWEDDER, D. & RACH, B. 2005: Insect Types in the ZFMK Collection, Bonn: Blattodea, Dermaptera, Heteroptera, Mantodea, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea. 

2. LAMPE, K.-H., ROHWEDDER, D. & RACH, B. 2005: Insect Types in the ZFMK Collection, Bonn: Heteroptera, "Homoptera", Hymenoptera, Phthiraptera and Siphonaptera. 

3. ROHWEDDER, D. & RÜCKER, W. 2006: Erstnachweis von Corticarina lambiana (Sharp, 1910) für Ungarn (Coleoptera: Latridiidae). - Latridiidae Heft 4: 15-17. 

4. ROHWEDDER, D. 2006: Erstnachweis von Nebria (Boreonebia) rufesecns (Stroem, 1768) für das Rheinland (Coleoptera: Carabidae). - Entomologische Zeitschrift 116 (6): 269-270. 

5. LAMPE, K.-H., ROHWEDDER, D. & SCHMIDT, C. 2006: African Coleoptera Type Specimens from the Thomas Wagner Collection, Bonn. - Bonner zoologische Beiträge, 55 (2), 163-178.

6. ROHWEDDER, D. 2006: Erstnachweis von Rugilus mixtus (Lohse, 1956) für die Rheinprovinz und NRW (Col., Staphylinidae). - Mitteilungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rheinischer Koleopterologen 16 (3-4): 72.