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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.
A specialist in Coleoptera he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean
Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean
Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean , was a French entomologist. A soldier of fortune during the Napoleonic Wars, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant General and aide de campe to Napoleon. He amassed vast collections of Coleoptera some even collected on the battlefield at Waterloo...
(1780-1845). This is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...
. Faimaire wrote 450 scientific papers and other publications relating to Coleoptera.He also worked on Hemiptera
Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...
External links
- Scarab Workers
- BDH Histoire Naturelle de France Hemipteres Musée Scolaire Deyrolle (1884).Scan