Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet (4 March 1807, Deinze

Deinze

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 –14 December 1889, Paris

Paris

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) was a French

France

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 entomologist and insect dealer mainly interested in Coleoptera.He described many new genera

Genus

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 and species

Species

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Buquet’s business dealt in exotic Coleoptera, especially Dynastidae, Buprestidae, Lucanidae, Scarabeidae and Cerambycidae. He also sold Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

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, especially Morpho and Agrias. The insects came mainly from the French colonial empires

French colonial empires

The French colonial empire was the set of territories outside Europe that were under French rule primarily from the 17th century to the late 1960s. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the colonial empire of France was the second-largest in the world behind the British Empire. The French colonial empire...

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He was a member of the Société entomologique de France

Société entomologique de France

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

Works

Partial list

• Description de onze espèces nouvelles du genre Lebia; rapportées de Cayenne par M. Leprieur. Annales de la Société entomologique de France
  Annales de la Société Entomologique de France
  Annales de la Société Entomologique de France is one of the oldest entomology journals in the world. It was founded in 1832, and began a new series in 1965, when it merged with and .-External links:...
  
  3: 673-681 (1834).
• 1835. Description d´un Coléoptére nouveau, du genre Goliathus (de Lamarck). Annales de la Société entomologique de France
  Annales de la Société Entomologique de France
  Annales de la Société Entomologique de France is one of the oldest entomology journals in the world. It was founded in 1832, and began a new series in 1965, when it merged with and .-External links:...
  
  1835 4: 135-137 (1835).
• Annales de la Société entomologique de France
  Annales de la Société Entomologique de France
  Annales de la Société Entomologique de France is one of the oldest entomology journals in the world. It was founded in 1832, and began a new series in 1965, when it merged with and .-External links:...
  
  1836 5: 201-207 (1836).
• Description d'une nouvelle espéce de Buprestide du genre Polybothris. Annales de la Société entomologique de France
  Annales de la Société Entomologique de France
  Annales de la Société Entomologique de France is one of the oldest entomology journals in the world. It was founded in 1832, and began a new series in 1965, when it merged with and .-External links:...
  
  (3) 2: 75-76 (1854)
• 1859. Mémoire sur deux genres nouveaux de coléoptèresde la famille des longicornes (Oxilus et Sthelenus),suivi de la description de plusieurs espèces appartenant aux genres Platyarthron, Oeme (Sclerocerus Dej.), Clytus, Apriona,Cerosterna et Acanthoderus. Annales de la Société entomologique de France
  Annales de la Société Entomologique de France
  Annales de la Société Entomologique de France is one of the oldest entomology journals in the world. It was founded in 1832, and began a new series in 1965, when it merged with and .-External links:...
  
  , Paris, 7 (3): 619-636 (1859)