Pierre-Hippolyte Lucas (17 January 1814 – 5 July 1899) was a French

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

. Lucas was an assistant-

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

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Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

. From 1839 to 1842 he studied fauna as part of the scientific commission on the exploration of

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. His brother was Prosper Lucas.

Works

* ''Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères exotiques. Ouvrage orné de 200 figures peintes d'après nature par Pauquet et gravées sur acier''. Paris, Pauquet, Bibliothèque Zoologique, 1835. * ''Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie, pendant les années 1840, 1841 et 1842''. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale (1844–1849). Published in 25 volumes this work contains 122 fine engraved plates. * "Description de nouvelles Espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux Collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris". ''Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée''. (2) 4 (3): 128–141 (1852) 4 (4): 189–198 (1852) 4 (6): 290–300 (1852) 4 (7): 324–343 (1852) 4 (9): 422–432, pl. 10 (1852) 5 (7): 310–322 (1853). * "Animaux nouveaux ou rares, recuillis pendant l'expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro a Lima et de Lima au Pará; executée par ordre du gouvernement français pendant les années 1843 a 1847 sous la direction du Comte Francis de Castelnau". ''Entomologie Voy. Cast''. 3: 197–199, pl. 1–2 (Lepidoptera) 859 * ''Essai sur les animaux articulés qui habitent l'île de Crète''

External links

* Scanned plates from ''Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés''. (plates incorrectly attributed to Gérard Paul Deshayes who did the

Mollusca Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

) 1814 births 1899 deaths French zoologists French lepidopterists National Museum of Natural History (France) people 19th-century French zoologists Scientists from Paris {{entomologist-stub