Sergei Alphéraky

Sergei Nikolaevich Alphéraky (also Alferaki; Russian: Сергей Николаевич Алфераки; 14 April 1850 – c. 1918) was a Greek-Russian ornithologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Sergei Alphéraky was born in Kharkov into the noble Greek family of Alferakis.

On his return to Russia he worked on the Lepidoptera of the Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don region.

He worked on the Lepidoptera collected by Nikolai Przhevalsky in Tibet held by the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science and those collected by Grigorij Nikolaevich Potanin in China and Mongolia in the same institution.

Later he studied the collections made by Alfred Otto Herz in Amur, Korea and Kamchatka, and those of Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanoff (Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich), a friend from his two years at Moscow University.