Johan August Wahlberg

Johan August Wahlberg (9 October 1810, in Lackarebäck, Sweden – 6 March 1856, in Lake Ngami, Bechuanaland) was a Swedish naturalist and explorer.

In 1832 he joined Professor Carl Henrik Boheman, a famous entomologist, on a collecting trip to Norway.

He travelled in southern Africa between 1838 and 1856, sending thousands of natural history specimens back to Sweden.

He was exploring the Okavango area along with Frederick Joseph Green (1829-1876) when he was killed, along the Thamalakane river about 10 km northwest of Maun in today's Botswana, by a wounded elephant.

[1] Wahlberg's South African Coleoptera were described by Carl Henrik Boheman and Olof Immanuel von Fåhraeus Wahlberg's herpetological specimens were made available by Sunderwall to Andrew Smith, and to André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron.