Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval in 1874
Born
(1799-06-24)24 June 1799
Ticheville, Lower Normandy, France
Died
30 December 1879(1879-12-30) (aged 80)
France
Nationality
French
Citizenship
France
Scientific career
Fields
Lepidoptery
Botany
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 French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician.[1]
He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société 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 textbook Flores française in 1828.[1] Early in his career, he was interested in Coleoptera and allied himself with both Jean Théodore Lacordaire and Pierre André Latreille. He was the curator of the Pierre Françoise Marie Auguste Dejean collection in Paris and described many species of beetles, as well as butterflies and moths, resulting from the voyages of the Astrolabe, the expedition ship of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse and the Coquille, that of Louis 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's Elateridae are in the Natural History Museum, London and the types of Curculionidae in Brussels Natural History Museum. His Lepidoptera were sold to Charles Oberthür. The Sphingidae are in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The standard author abbreviation Boisd. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2] The standard author abbreviation is Boisduval when citing a zoological name.[3]
^ 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 (1er semestre). Rouen: Société des amis des sciences naturelles de Rouen: 97–99. 1908.
JeanBaptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the...
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species of beetle in the family Lucanidae. It was described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1835. Huang and Chen (2013) separated Serognathus from the genus...
Baja California in Mexico. The species was first described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1855. The wingspan is 89–127 mm. Adults are on wing from January...
"woolly bears" or "tiger moths"). The species was first described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1829. It is found from the Indo Australian tropics to northern...
ophthalmica is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1855 . It is found in western North America from California...
Species. Bogong moths was first described by French lepidopterist JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1832, who described the moth as Noctua infusa from a type specimen...
Egybolis is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1847. Its only species, Egybolis vaillantina, the African peach...
Papilionidae (swallowtails). The species was first described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1836. Graphium androcles has a wingspan reaching about 80–120...
east coast of South Africa. The species was first described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1847. An adult can measure 10 to 12 centimetres (3.9 to 4.7 in)...
species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1835. It is known from Indonesia and the Philippines. The species...
found in eastern Madagascar. The species was first described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1836. The habitat consists of forests and forest margins. Papilio...
North American butterfly first described by the French naturalists JeanBaptisteBoisduval and John Eatton Le Conte from the state of Georgia, United States...
Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge(6 Volumes, 1843–1856). In France JeanBaptisteBoisduval, Jules Pierre Rambur and Adolphe Hercule de Graslin wrote Collection...
moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1833. Able to eat many types of food, it is a major pest throughout...
species in the butterfly family Riodinidae. It was described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1836. Melanis pixe has a wingspan of about 40 millimetres (1...
Antherina suraka, the Suraka silk moth, was first described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1833. It is found on Madagascar and Mayotte. Both larvae and...
moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1832. It is endemic to New Zealand and found in all parts of...
of moths in the family Lasiocampidae. The genus was erected by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1833. Borocera attenuata (Kenrick, 1914) Borocera aurantiaca...
Chetone histrio, or Boisduval's tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1870. It is found in Honduras,...
Spodoptera are known to be pest insects. The species was named by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1833. Synonyms of S. littoralis include Hadena littoralis and...
by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1836. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. E. c. ceryx (Java) E. c. ceryxoides de Nicéville, 1895 (Sumatra) Boisduval, 1832...
forget-me-not moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by JeanBaptisteBoisduval in 1852. It is found in the US states of Oregon and California...
Nielsen, J. (2010). A Review of Synandromorphism in the Genus Ornithoptera Boisduval, (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Australian Entomologist, 37(3): 105-112...
described in 1835 by JeanBaptisteBoisduval within Arrhenodes. it is currently accepted under the genus Orychodes. Boisduval, Jean Alphonse. Faune entomologique...
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