Tags: Entomologist.
Sergei Nikolaevich Alphéraky (1850–1918) was a Russian ornithologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Sergei Alphéraky was born into a noble Greek family of Alferakis brother to composer Achilles Alferaki his father Nikos Alferakis owned the Alferaki Palace in Taganrog. Sergei studied at Moscow University (1867–1869) then with Otto Staudinger in Dresden (1871–1873).On his return to Russia he worked on the Lepidoptera of the Taganrog Rostov-on-Don region.
