Adam Giede Böving

Adam Giede Böving (July 31, 1869 – March 16, 1957) was a Danish-American entomologist and zoologist.

He was a specialist in the study of the larvae of the order Coleoptera and the author of a series of descriptions on their early stages of development.

[1] Adam Böving was born at Sæby in Vendsyssel, Denmark.

From 1939 he was a research associate of the Smithsonian Institution, and retired from USDA in 1945.

He wrote and illustrated a number of books principally describing early stages of Coleoptera development.