Johann Andreas Schnabl

Johann Andreas Schnabl (born Jan Sznabla, 1838 – 1912) was born a Pole of German descent, and was an entomologist specializing in Diptera. His family moved from Dresden to Warsaw in the late 18th century, hence the German heritage.^{[citation needed]}

Trained as a physician, he taught classes in natural history in Warsaw. His wide-ranging travels included scientific trips to the Caucasus, the Urals, Lapland, the Pyrenees, Corsica, Hungary and Peru.^[1]

Scientific works

He is the taxonomic author of the family Fanniidae^[2] and the genera Spilogona and Paregle.^[3] With Heinrich Dziedzicki, he described the genera Polietina, Pegoplata and Villeneuvia.^[4]

He is commemorated with the species Mycetophila schnablii (a fungus gnat) and Cheilosia schnabli (a dipteran species) as well as Amorphochilus schnablii, commonly known as the smoky bat, a chiropteran native to western South America.^[1]

Publications

• Contributions à la faune diptérologique (1887).
• Contributions à la faune diptérologique. Additions aux descriptions precedentes des Aricia et descriptions des espèces nouvelles (1888).^[5]
• Die Anthomyiden (with H. Dziedzicki), 1911 - Anthomyiidae.