Achille Marie Jacques Raffray (17 October 1844 – 25 September 1923) was a French

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

traveller Traveler(s), traveller(s), The Traveler(s), or The Traveller(s) may refer to: People Generic terms *One engaged in travel *Explorer, one who searches for the purpose of discovery of information or resources *Nomad, a member of a community withou ...

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. He wrote: (Partial list) - Entomology: * (1890) Étude sur le Psélaphides. V. Tableaux synoptiques. Notes et synonymie. ''Revue d'Entomologie'', Caen, 9: 81–172. * (1892) with

Ignacio Bolívar Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia (9 November 1850, Madrid – 19 November 1944, Mexico City) was a Spanish naturalist and entomologist, and one of the founding fathers of Spanish entomology. He helped found the ''Real Sociedad Española de Hist ...

and

Eugène Simon Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4 ...

. Voyage de M. E. Simon aux îles Philippines (Mars et Avril 1890). 4e mémoire. Etude sur les arthropodes cavernicoles de l'île de Luzon. ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'' 61: 27-52, Pl. 1-2. * (1900) Australian Pselaphidae. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 25: 131–249, pl. 1 * (1904) Genera et catalogue des Psélaphides. ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'' 73: 1–400 * (1908) Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. pp. 1–487, pls i–ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.).'' Genera Insectorum'', 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. * (1912) with

Antoine Henri Grouvelle Antoine Henri Grouvelle (17 January 1843 – 9 June 1917 Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He was also an engineer who directed a tobacco factory. He worked on world fauna of the heterogeneous group of beet ...

Supplément à la Liste des Coléoptères de la Guadeloupe ''Ann. Soc. Entom. France'' vol. 81 - Geography: * (1875) 'Voyage en Abyssinie, à Zanzibar et au pays des Ouanika', ''Bulletin de la Société de Géographie'' x, No. 6 Achille Raffray was a member of the

Société entomologique de France The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. The society was founded in 1832 in Paris, France. The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832. The first ...

and the

Société de Géographie The Société de Géographie (; ), is the world's oldest geographical society. It was founded in 1821 as the first Geographic Society. Since 1878, its headquarters have been at 184 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris. The entrance is marked by two gig ...

. His massive collections of world beetles were sold and are conserved in many European museums.

Eponyms

Raffray's bandicoot Raffray's bandicoot (''Peroryctes raffrayana'') is a species of marsupial in the family Peroryctidae The New Guinean long-nosed bandicoots (genus ''Peroryctes'') are members of the order (biology), order Peramelemorphia. They are small to med ...

, ''Peroryctes raffrayana'', was named for him by the Parisian zoologist

Henri Milne-Edwards Henri Milne-Edwards (23 October 1800 – 29 July 1885) was an eminent French zoologist. Biography Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and colonel of the militia in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a Frenchw ...

. A

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

of African snake, ''

Scaphiophis raffreyi ''Scaphiophis'' is a genus of African snakes in the family Colubridae. Common names include hook-nosed snakes and shovel-nosed snakes. Species Two species are recognized as being valid.. www.reptile-database.org. *''Scaphiophis albopunctatus'' ...

'', was named in his honor by French

herpetologist Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning " reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and r ...

Marie Firmin Bocourt Marie Firmin Bocourt (19 April 1819 – 4 February 1904) was a French zoologist and artist. As a young man, he worked as a preparateur for the zoologist Gabriel Bibron (1805–1848), later serving as a museum artist. In 1861, he was sent to Tha ...

,Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Raffrey", pp. 215-216). while a species of short-tailed snake, '' Brachyorrhos raffreyi'' from

Ternate Ternate is a city in the Indonesian province of North Maluku and an island in the Maluku Islands. It was the ''de facto'' provincial capital of North Maluku before Sofifi on the nearby coast of Halmahera became the capital in 2010. It is off th ...

in North Maluku Province,

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

, was also named for Raffray, by the French herpetologist,

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of October ...

and

paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of foss ...

Henri-Émile Sauvage

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