Henri de Peyerimhoff (entomologist)

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Henri de Peyerimhoff
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Born(1838-07-27)27 July 1838
Colmar, Alsace, France
Died9 April 1877(1877-04-09) (aged 38)
Perpignan, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationMagistrate, entomologist

Henri de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle full name Marie Antoine Hercule Henri de Peyerimhoff (27 July 1838 – 9 April 1877) was a magistrate and entomologist from Alsace, France. He is known for his work with smaller moths.

Life[]

Henri de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle was born on 27 July 1838 in Colmar, Alsace.[1] His parents were Jean-Baptiste Hercule de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle (1809–1890), mayor of Colmar, and Marie-Rose Béchelé.[1] His father's family originated in 14th-century Alsace near the borders with Bavaria and Baden. The Catholic branch associated with Switzerland assumed the name "Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle" in the late 18th century.[2] His father was head of the Colmar municipal council and did much to modernise the city. Henri de Peyerimhoff became a magistrate and was also an entomologist who specialized in microlepidoptera (smaller moths).[2]

Peyerimhoff married Marie George on 15 November 1870 in Strasbourg.[1] She was from the Bellaigues, a solid bourgeoisie de robe in Nancy.[2] When Alsace became part of Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Peyerimhoff chose to remain French and became judge of the civil court of Moulins in 1873, and then of Perpignan.[2] His father remained in Colmar and became a deputy in the Landesausschuss, the state legislature.[1] Peyerimhoff suffered from poor health.[2] He died on 9 April 1877 in Perpignan at the age of 38.[1]

Peyerimhoff left two sons, Henri de Peyerimhoff (1871–1953), who became a civil servant and businessman, and Paul de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle (1873–1957), who joined the Forestry service and became an entomologist.[2] In his obituary of Peyerimhoff the Abbé Umhang wrote, "I have known more than one young man who has been passionate about a branch of natural history, and I have not seen any of them depart from the path of virtue and honor."[3] The preliminary results of his extensive studies of the Tortricidae of moths were published in the Annales de la Société Entomologique de France in 1876, but were incomplete at the time of his death.[4]

Publications[]

Publications by Henri de Peyerimhoff included:[5]

  • Peyerimhoff, Henri de (1859), De domicilio. -Du domicile. - De l'acceptation par intervention de la lettre de change (Th. licence : Droit), Strasbourg
  • Peyerimhoff, Henri de (1862), Catalogue des lépidoptères d'Alsace, avec indication des localités, de l'époque d'apparition et de quelques détails propres à en faciliter la recherche (in French), Colmar: Impr. et lithog. de C. Decker

Species named by Peyerimhoff[]

Name Family Year Synonym of Notes
Aethes deaurana Tortricidae 1877 Also named Cochylis deaurana by Peyerimhoff in 1877
Argyresthia chrysidella Yponomeutidae 1877
Aristotelia lucentella Gelechiidae 1871 Eulamprotes unicolorella Commonly called "unmarked neb"
Chauliodus daucellus Epermeniidae 1870 Epermenia aequidentellus
Cochylis millierana Tortricidae 1877 Cochylis salebrana
Cochylis rubricana Tortricidae 1877 Gynnidomorpha rubricana
Crinopteryx familiella Incurvariidae 1871 Sole species in the genus Crinopteryx and subfamily Crinopteryginae
Ephippiphora rectana Tortricidae 1863 Epinotia brunnichana
Epinotia pusillana Tortricidae 1863
[6] Tortricidae 1877
Gelechia horticolla Gelechiidae 1871 Caryocolum proxima
Gelechia squamulella Gelechiidae 1871 Xenolechia aethiops Also named Teleiodes squamulella by Peyerimhoff in 1871
Gelechia superfetella Gelechiidae 1877 Athrips rancidella Commonly called "cotoneaster webworm"
Grapholitha pflugiana var. alsaticana Tortricidae 1872 Epiblema scutulana
Gynnidomorpha rubricana Tortricidae 1877
Lithocolletis cerisolella Gracillariidae 1872 Phyllonorycter cerisolella
Mecyna auralis Crambidae 1872 Also named Botys auralis by Peyerimhoff in 1872
Mimaesoptilus arvernicus Pterophoridae 1875 Stenoptilia lutescens
Nemophora pseudopilella Adelidae 1877 Nematopogon adansoniella
Nemophora reaumurella Adelidae 1870 Nematopogon swammerdamella
Nepticula ilicivora Nepticulidae 1871 Stigmella suberivora
Orthotaenia obesana Tortricidae 1863 Endothenia quadrimaculana
Pammene giganteana[7] Tortricidae 1863
Parafomoria cistivora Nepticulidae 1871 Also named Nepticula cistivora by Peyerimhoff in 1871
Phoxopteris castaneana Tortricidae 1863 Ancylis upupana
Retinia amethystana Tortricidae 1872 Gravitarmata margarotana
Retinia incognatana Tortricidae 1863 Epinotia rubiginosana
Scoparia gallica Crambidae 1873
Sideria violana Tortricidae 1863 Endothenia pullana Commonly called "woundwort marble"
Teras cyaneana Tortricidae 1872 Acleris caucasica
Teras mixtana var. provinciana Tortricidae 1872 Acleris hyemana
Teras mucidana Tortricidae 1873 Acleris quercinana
Tortrix culmana Tortricidae 1863 Clepsis senecionana

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Pierfit.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Chatriot.
  3. ^ Goss 1877, p. 71.
  4. ^ Walsingham 1882, p. 191.
  5. ^ Henri de Peyerimhoff (1838-1877) – BnF.
  6. ^ Chambon 1999, p. 260.
  7. ^ Pammene giganteana – UKMoths.

Sources[]

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