Carl Plötz (1814 – 12 August 1886, Greifswald) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and in particular Hesperiidae. He was a member of the Entomological Society of Stettin. He wrote (from 1879 onwards)
various dates; (1879) 41: Heterocera text Rhopalocera text (1880) 55(3):1-22, (1880) ; 40 (7-9): 406-411 (1881) , 42 : 500-504; 43 (1882, but published in 1881) 26:71-82, 253-266 (1882) 45 (4-6): 151-166 (1884) , 17: 485-528 (1886).
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