Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl

Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl (13 June 1823, Bern – 24 August 1914, Kirchdorf) was a Swiss entomologist who specialised in Orthoptera, and a botanist.

Von Wattenwyl was a postmaster. He described many new taxa of Orthoptera.

His collection is conserved in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern (Natural History Museum of Bern), Bern, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden, Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt A.M. and Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg.

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