Arnold Förster

Arnold Förster (20 January 1810 – 13 August 1884) was a German entomologist, who worked mainly on Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.

Arnold Förster was born on 20 January 1810 in Aachen, Germany, where he died on 12 August 1884.

Selection Förster’s Coleoptera and Hemiptera and some of his Hymenoptera - Cynipidae, Ichneumonidae (Cryptinae excl.

many types of species described by Johann Wilhelm Meigen) are in the Zoological Museum of Halle.

Förster’s notebooks contain keys and descriptions, mostly of genera of Hymenoptera (almost the entirety of the Ichneumonidae), are in the Smithsonian Institution.