Nicholas Seiler (Apolinar Maria), French-born Colombian Catholic missionary and naturalist (Sarreguemines, Alsace 05 November 1867 – Bogotá 24 December 1949)
Authored 92 publications
Collected and discovered about 300 species between animals and plants (described by other researchers)
DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA
Species
Colias fassli 1944
Diaethria marginata 1928
Heliconius colombiana 1927
Heliconius leucosticta 1926
Heliconius mixta 1927
Heliconius xanthosticta 1926
Lymanopoda viventieni 1924
Morpho nigromarginata 1942
Papilio oberthuri 1916
Subspecies
18
Varieties
13
HONORS
Apolinaria Rehn 1950 (Orthoptera)
Seileria Dognin 1923 (Lepidoptera)