Jules Pierre Rambur
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Jules Pierre Rambur
Jules Pierre Rambur (21 July 1801 – 10 August 1870) was a French entomologist.
Rambur was born in Chinon. He studied the insect fauna of Corsica and Andalusia. He was the author of Histoire naturelle des insectes (1842) amongst other works. He died in Geneva.
He was a Member and later (1839) President of the Société entomologique de France.
Publications[]
- Catalogue des lépidoptères insectes Néuroptères de l’île de Corse (1832)
- Faune entomologique de l’Andalousie (two volumes, 1837–1840)
- Histoire naturelle des insectes( part of the Suites à Buffon, 1842)
- Catalogue systématique des Lépidoptères de l’Andalousie (1858–1866).
- with Adolphe Hercule de Graslin and Jean Baptiste Boisduval Collection iconographique et historique des chenilles; ou, Description et figures des chenilles d'Europe, avec l'histoire de leurs métamorphoses, et des applications à l'agriculture Paris,Librairie encyclopédique de Roret,1832.
Sources[]
Jean Gouillard (2004). Histoire des entomologistes français, 1750–1950. Édition entièrement revue et augmentée. Boubée (Paris) : 287 p. Jean Lhoste (1987). Les Entomologistes français. 1750–1950. INRA Éditions .
Categories:
- French entomologists
- French lepidopterists
- Taxa named by Jules Pierre Rambur
- 1801 births
- 1870 deaths
- French taxonomists
- 19th-century French zoologists
- Presidents of the Société entomologique de France
- People from Chinon
- Deaths in Switzerland
- French zoologist stubs
- Entomologist stubs