Jean Antoine Dours
Encyclopedia
Jean Antoine Dours was a French
entomologist specialising in Hymenoptera
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which was returned to that entomologist, Dours collection was burned in a fire in the U.S.A.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
entomologist specialising in Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. There are over 130,000 recognized species, with many more remaining to be described. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν : membrane and...
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Works
- Monographie iconographique du genre Anthophora, Lat.,Mémoires de la Societé Linnéene de Nord de la France , 2 (Annes 1868 & 1869)1870 (sic).
- Hymenopteres nouveaux du bassin. mediterraneen. Rev. Mag. Zool. (2)23, p. 293 -. 312, 349 - 359, 396 - 399, 418 - 434 (1872).
- Catalogue synonymique des Hyménoptères de France. Mémoires de la Societé Linnéene de Nord de la France (Amiens), 3, 1-230.(1873) See http://www.archive.org/details/ants_14701 for pages on ants
Collection
Excepting the material he acquired from Joseph-Étienne GiraudJoseph-Étienne Giraud
Joseph-Étienne Giraud was a French doctor and entomologist specializing in Hymenoptera with an additional interest in Coleoptera.Giraud practised medicine in Vienna and Paris...
which was returned to that entomologist, Dours collection was burned in a fire in the U.S.A.