Demarz, Herbert   (1926 -  )

Born on 3 July 1926 in Germany;

He was a Silesian German who came to Australia as a collector from the Munich Museum.

He arrived with his wife Luise (née Janusch) on board the ship 'Castel Verde', arriving at Fremantle, WA, on 7 July 1953.

He was naturalised as an Australian Citizen on 17 June 1963.

He had a background in entomology and a special interest in dung beetles.

He was employed at Kings Park as a seed collector, travelling widely across Western Australia, often with John Beard, collecting around 12,000 specimens as vouchers for the seed bank at Kings Park.

His first WA herbarium collection is in 1960, and the last is in 1994.

Demarz made the first known collections of numerous new plant species in Western Australia.

Demarz is honoured in the naming of a number of dung beetles including the genus Demarziella Balthasar, Onthophagus demarzi Frey, Onthophagus demarziellus Frey and Teinogenys demarzi Endrodi.

Demarz was also honoured in the plant name of the Southern Tinsel Lily, Calectasia demarzii R.L.Barrett in 2017.

Source: Extracted from:
Barratt, Russell, 'Half a Century of Botanical Research and Discovery in Western Australia by Kings Park and Botanic Garden', J. Zool. Bot. Gard. , 2026, 7, 15
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Pers.Comm. R.Barrett-M.Fagg 23/3/2026
Portrait Photo: Beard, J.S. 'Plant Life in Western Australia', Kangaroo Press, 1990 fig 5.79, p.306.

Collecting localities for 'Demarz, H.' from AVH (2026)

Data from 4,649 specimens