Adolphe Hercule de Graslin (11 April 1802, Chateaux de Malitourne,
Flée, Sarthe
Flée () is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France.
See also
*Communes of the Sarthe department
The following is a list of the 354 communes of the Sarthe department of France.
The comm ...
– 31 May 1882, Malitourne) was a French
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 ...
.
Adolphe Hercule de Graslin specialised in
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...
. He was a founding member of the
Société Entomologique de France. His collection was acquired by
Charles Oberthür
Charles Oberthür (14 September 1845 – 1 June 1924) was a French amateur entomologist specializing in lepidoptera.
Biography
Charles Oberthür was born in Rennes, the son of the printer François-Charles Oberthür and Marie Hamelin, and brot ...
.
Works
With
Jean Alphonse Boisduval and
Jules Pierre Rambur, he wrote ''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
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, 1832.
References
*Anonym 1883:
raslin, A. H. de''Annales de la
Société entomologique de France'' (6), Paris 3: 561-564
*Letacq; Gerbault, E. 1918:
raslin, A. H. deLe Mans, Monnoyer
*
arseul, S. A. de1889: ''Les Entomologistes et leurs Écrits''. L'Abeille. Journal d'entomologie. Cinquieme. série. , Paris.
*Reiche, L. 1882:
raslin, A. H. de''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'' (6), Bulletin, Paris CIX
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*''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''
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French lepidopterists
1802 births
1882 deaths
People from Sarthe
19th-century French zoologists
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