Hugo Skala

Hugo Skala (25 January 1875 – 29 June 1952) was an Austrian lepidopterist and tax officer.

After retiring from his work in 1923 he became involved in establishing the entomological collections of the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz.

In 1897, he became an income-tax officer first at Přerov and then at various places including Štíty, Nikolsdorf and Fulnek.

He took a special interest in the leaf-mining lepidoptera and collected nearly 7400 herbarium specimens of the mined leaves.

He published his major two-part work on the lepidoptera of Moravia ("Die Lepidopterenfauna Mährens") in 1912 and 1913.