Carl Heinrich Hopffer (1810–1876) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Hopffer was a curator (Custos) at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He described many new species mainly in the following works.Neue Schmetterlinge der Insekten-Sammlung des Konigl. Zoologischen Musei der Universitat zu Berlin with Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (1836)Lepidoptera Diurna. In Hr Peters legte von sie nem Reisewerke uber Mossambique… Diagnosen neurer Coleopteren und Lepidopteren.