Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Jean Baptiste Boisduval | |
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 Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval in 1874 | |
| Born | 24 June 1799 Ticheville,Lower Normandy, France |
| Died | 30 December 1879(aged 80) France |
| Nationality | French |
| Citizenship |  France |
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| Institutions | Société entomologique de France |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Boisd. |
| Author abbrev. (zoology) | Boisduval |
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval(24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a Frenchlepidopterist,botanist,andphysician.[1]
He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of theSociété entomologique de France.While best known abroad for his work in entomology, he started his career in botany, collecting a great number of French plant specimens and writing broadly on the topic throughout his career, including the textbookFlores françaisein 1828.[1]Early in his career, he was interested inColeopteraand allied himself with bothJean Théodore LacordaireandPierre André Latreille.He was the curator of thePierre Françoise Marie Auguste Dejeancollection in Paris and described many species of beetles, as well as butterflies and moths, resulting from the voyages of theAstrolabe,the expedition ship ofJean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouseand theCoquille,that ofLouis Isidore Duperrey.
He left Paris, where he had lived for nearly 60 years, in 1875, to retire in Ticheville near his family.[1]His brother was Adolphe-Armand d'Echauffour de Boisduval (September 26, 1801 – March 1, 1842), a doctor, naturalist, and health officer in their native Ticheville.[1]
Boisduval'sElateridaeare in theNatural History Museum,London and the types ofCurculionidaein Brussels Natural History Museum. His Lepidoptera were sold toCharles Oberthür.TheSphingidaeare in theCarnegie Museum of Natural HistoryinPittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The standardauthor abbreviationBoisd.is used to indicate this person as the author whencitingabotanical name.[2]The standard author abbreviation isBoisduvalwhen citing a zoological name.[3]
Works[edit]
- Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour Boisduval andJohn Eatton Le Conte,1829–1837Histoire général et iconographie des lepidoptérès et des chenilles de l’Amerique septentrionale(in English,General history and illustrations of theLepidopteraand caterpillars of Northern America) published inParis.[4]Many of the illustrations for this work were done byJohn Abbot.[5]The work was not completed until 1837.
- Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour Boisduval,Jules Pierre RamburandAdolphe Hercule de GraslinCollection 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 deRoret,1832.
- Jules Dumont d'UrvilleEd. Voyage de l'Astrolabe.Faune entomologique de l'Océanie par le Dr Boisduval.Tome 1: Lepidoptéres (1832); Tome 2: Coléoptères, Hémiptères, Orthoptères Névroptères, Hyménoptères et Diptères (1835).
- Boisduval, J. B., Mémoire sur les Lépidoptères de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice.Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle.Paris 2:149–270. (1833)online hereand published by Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1833[6]
- Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. Tome Premier Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 1: 1–690 (1836)
- Boisduval, J. B., 1852. Lepidoptères de la CalifornieAnnales de la Société Entomologique de France10(2):275–324.[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^abcd"Revue historique et bibliographie des traveaux publiés sur la flore du départmente de l'Orne".Bulletin de la Société des amis des sciences naturelles de Rouen(in French).44(1ersemestre). Rouen: Société des amis des sciences naturelles de Rouen: 97–99. 1908.
- ^International Plant Names Index.Boisd.
- ^"Australian Faunal Directory:Dicranolaius bellulus".biodiversity.org.au.Retrieved2022-09-17.
- ^Boisduval, Jean;LeConte, John(1833).Histoire générale et iconigraphie des lépidoptè et des chenilles de l'Amérique septentrionale(in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret.
- ^Calhoun, John V. 2004.Histoire générale et iconographie des Lépidoptéres et des chenilles de l’Amérique septentrionaleby Boisduval & Le Conte (1829–[1837]): original drawings for the engraved plates and the true identities of four figured taxa.Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society58:143–168
- ^gallica.bnf.fr Gallica
- ^Lepidoptères de la Californie.
External links[edit]
Media related toJean-Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduvalat Wikimedia Commons
Data related toJean Baptiste Boisduvalat Wikispecies- Boisduval watercolours
- Boisduval's major works online at Gallica
- NHM Database
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