103:, including serving as president, but published only a few more taxonomic contributions. In 2003 he published a checklist of chalcid wasps of Sweden, based primarily on his own collection, that is known as likely the most comprehensive database of Swedish chalcids. He died on 27 December 2009. In 2011 his collection of more than 50,000 Hymenoptera from around the world was purchased from his relatives by the
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from 1949. In this capacity, he travelled extensively around Sweden, working on pest management. At the same time he was accumulated up a large personal insect collection and started publishing widely (from 1945) on
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In the mid 1950s, Hedqvist embarked upon his career as a taxonomist, describing first a new
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