{{Short description|German entomologist and banker in Mexico (1837–1896)}}
[[File:Julius Flohr.jpg|thumb|Undated portrait of Flohr in Berlin, held in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.]]
'''Julius Flohr''' (11 February 1837 – 8 February 1896) was a German banker and entomologist resident in Mexico.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gordh |first=Gordon |url=http://archive.org/details/dictionaryofento0000gord |title=A dictionary of entomology |date=2011 |publisher=Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK; Cambridge, MA: CABI |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-84593-542-9 |pages=581}}</ref>
== Early life == Flohr was born in Hamburg, in what was then the German Confederation, on 11 February 1837.<ref name="Senckenberg">{{cite book |last1=Weidner |first1=H. |title=Biographies of the Entomologists of the World |date=1967 |publisher=Geschichte der Entomologie in Hamburg. Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, N. F. |page=116 |url=https://sdei.senckenberg.de/biographies/information.php?id=23599 |chapter=Flohr, Julius}}</ref> He was educated there and in England.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tFx8W0oGaXEC&dq=julius+flohr+well+known+coleopterist&pg=PA91 |title=The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine |date=1896 |publisher=Entomologist's Monthly Magazine Limited |pages=91 |language=en}}</ref>
== Banking career == In 1859, Flohr moved to Mexico City to work as a banker.<ref name=":0" /> In 1862, he joined Esteban Benecke & Co., a bank in which he became a life-long partner.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Kraatz |first=Ernst Gustav |date=1896 |title=Julius Flohr |url=https://www.zobodat.at/biografien/Flohr_Julius_Deutsche-Ent-Zeitschrift_1896_0366-0367.pdf |journal=Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift |issue=II |pages=367 |lang=de}}</ref> Benecke was the Prussian consul and one of Mexico's first bankers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ludlow |first=Leonor |date=May 1996 |title=La primera generación de banqueros en la Ciudad de México |url=https://www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/download/06cc0e6f-0bf3-476d-9cd4-036b6cb67781?filename=la-primera-generacion-de-banqueros-en-la-ciudad-de-mexico |journal=Revista de la Universidad de Mexico |issue=544 |page=18}}</ref>
== Entomological pursuits == Flohr retired from day-to-day banking in 1877 and devoted himself to the study of insects, especially beetles. Interest in comparative anatomy remained high following the publication of Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species'', and Flohr's field work was cited extensively in the ''Biologia Centrali-Americana'' encyclopedia.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
Between 1878 and 1885, British naturalist Henry Walter Bates named several species of North American beetle for Flohr, including
* ''Bembidion flohri''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bembidion flohri Bates, 1878 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7534616 |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}</ref> * ''Ecteneolus flohri''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cerambycidae (Longhorns) |url=http://titan.gbif.fr/sel_genann1.php?numero=2669 |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=titan.gbif.fr}}</ref> * ''Hybothecus flohri''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hybothecus flohri (Bates, 1882) |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7954323 |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}</ref>
In 1884, Flohr accompanied American zoologist Edward Drinker Cope in Mexico. Cope wrote:<blockquote>I am indebted to my excellent friend, Dr. Julius Flohr, of the city of Mexico, for a canoe excursion on the lake Xochimilco [...] Here I had an opportunity of seeing the botany and zoology of the very irregular shores, which are so curiously constructed by the art of the natives [...] The ends and shores of the piers are the resting place of innumerable snakes, which can be readily observed from a canoe. The wife of our Indian boatman was particularly acute in detecting these animals before either my friend or myself could see them.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cope |first=E. D. |date=1885 |title=A Contribution to the Herpetology of Mexico |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/982999 |journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |volume=22 |issue=120 |pages=386 |jstor=982999 |issn=0003-049X}}</ref></blockquote>
== Death == Flohr died in Veracruz on 8 February 1896.<ref name=":0"/>{{efn|The ''Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift'' records his date of death as 18 February 1896.<ref name=":1"/>}} He was eulogized by entomologists George Charles Champion in England and Ernst Gustav Kraatz in Germany. Flohr's collection of insect specimens was bequeathed to the Berlin Zoological Museum.<ref name=":1" />
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