Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl (1823, Bern - 24.August. 1914, Kirchdorf) was a Swiss entomologist who specialised in Orthoptera.
Von Wattenwyl was a Postmaster. He described many new taxa of Orthoptera.
His collection is conserved in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Naturhistoriches 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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