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His special area was in insects associated with freshwater particularly in the groups
Trichoptera, Plecoptera, and Neuroptera. He also took some interest in ladybird beetles. He was one of the founding members of the Czech Entomological Society on 17 January 1904, and was elected the first chairman
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and became a zoological assistant at the Royal Czech Museum in Prague. He then taught at secondary schools in Litomyšl, and later at Prague in Žitná and Spálená Street. Still later he move to a school in
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where he was able to spend more time on entomological pursuits. He made trips to
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of the organization. He translated two books by Jean Henri Fabre into Czech published in 1911 and 1916. In 1914 he published a Czech translation of
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into Czech. He also published a two-volume "Atlas of
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Klapálek died on 3 February 1919 in Prague, at the age of 55.
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