Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

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Christine Hecher

Position: associate scientist

Contact:

christine.hecher@nhm-wien.ac.at

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

born 16th April 1970, Kirchbergn am Wechsel/Austria
1976 - 1988 Primary school and Classical secondary school in Kirchberg am Wechsel
1988 - 1994 Study of Biology and Earth Sciences at the University of Vienna
1992 - 1994 Diploma at the Natural History Museum of Vienna (NHMV): Comparative morphological studies on Plecotus auritus and Plecotus austriacus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae)
1993 - 1996 Freelancer at the NHMV: guiding tours on various topics of zoology, management of projects for school classes; layout and proofreading of scientific papers published e.g. in the „Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien“; drawing up of distribution maps; assistance in the Heteroptera Collection;

1995 - 1999 Several entomological study- and collection-trips to Costa Rica and Ecuador with financial support of the NHMV
1995 - 2003 Recording of type specimens of Reduviidae in the Heteroptera collection of the NHMV, taxonomic studies and several scientific publications on Asiatic Veliidae
1996 - 2001 Teaching at the GRg Kleine Sperlgasse, GRg Friesgasse and GRg 19, Vienna

2001 - 2006 Maternity leave (for the rendering of two children)
2007 - Teaching at the BG Zehnergasse, Wiener Neustadt
2020 - Taxonomic studies on Veliidae at the NHMV

Hecher, C. & Laciny, A. 2021: Review of the genus Pseudovelia Hoberlandt, 1950 (Heteroptera, Veliidae) on the Philippines: Part III: Greater Mindoro, Sibuyan, Romblon-Tablas, Greater Negros-Panay. – Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Östereichischer Entomologen 73:165-182.
Hecher, C. 2006: Review of the genus Pseudovelia (Heteroptera, Veliidae) on the Philippines: Part II: Greater Luzon. – Denisia 19: 435-456.
Hecher, C. & Zettel, H. 2006: Review of the genus Pseudovelia (Heteroptera, Veliidae) on the Malay Peninsula. – Linzer biologische Beiträge 38/1: 701-710.
Hecher, C. & Bongo, J.P. 2006: A new species of Pseudovelia Hoberlandt, 1950 (Insecta: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the central Philippines. - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 107B: 91-98.
Hecher, C. 2005: Notes on Pseudovelia Hoberlandt (Insecta: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Thailand, with description of a new species. - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 106B: 55-65.
Sehnal, C. 2000: Typenkatalog der Reduviidae des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (Insecta: Heteroptera). Kataloge der wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Band 14: Entomologie, Heft 6. - Wien, Verlag NHMW November 2000: 126 S.
Zettel, H. & Sehnal, C. 1999: Notes on the Veliidae (Heteroptera) of Borneo: 2. Polhemovelia n.gen., with description of three new species. - Journal of the New York Entomological Society 107 (2-3): 124-134.
Sehnal, Ch. & Kerzhner, I.M. 1999: On the type specimens of some Pyrrhocoridae in the Natural History Museum of Vienna (Heteroptera). - Zoosystematica Rossica 8 (1): 132.
Sehnal, C. 1999: Two new species of Pseudovelia Hoberlandt, 1950 (Insecta: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Palawan and Busuanga, Philippines. - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 101B: 147-154.
Zettel, H. & Hecher, C. 1998: Notes on the Veliidae (Heteroptera) of Borneo: 1. Three new species of Angilia Stal, 1865, with a key to the oriental species. - The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 1998 46 (2): 335-344.
Hecher, C. 1998: Key to the genera of Veliidae (Gerromorpha) of Thailand and adjacent countries, with a check-list of genera and species knowan from Thailand. - Amemboa 2: 3-9.
Hecher, Ch. 1997: Two new species of Pseudovelia (Insecta: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Vietnam. - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 99B: 41-49.
Hecher, C. & Zettel, H. 1996: Faunistical and morphological notes on Limnogonus subgenus Limnogonoides Poisson 1965 (Heteroptera: Gerridae). - Linzer biologische Beiträge 28 (1): 325-333.

Hecher, C. & Zettel, H. 1996: Sammeln, Erforschen, Bewahren. Die Forschung an den Naturhistorischen Museen als Grundlage für einen fundierten Naturschutz. In: Esquinas-Nationalpark. Der Regenwald der Österreicher in Costa Rica. Wien, Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien: 130-132.