August Arthur Petry

August Arthur Petry (1858, Tilleda - 1932 Nordhausen) was a German botanist and entomologist specialising in Microlepidoptera.

[1] He was a teacher of philology at the Gymnasium in Nordhausen.

August Petry was a Member of the Stettin Entomological Society.

Ottmar Hofmann honoured his name in Caryocolum petryi.

His collections are, in part, held by the Natural History Museum of Erfurt.