Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval ( born June 17, 1799 in Ticheville, † December 30, 1879 ) was a French entomologist, botanist and physician. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Boisd. ".
Life
1828 Boisduval received his doctorate in medicine. He described many new species of insects. As one of the outstanding lepidopterist of France, he was also co-founder of the Société entomologique de France. Early in his career he was also involved in Coleoptera and worked with Lacordaire and Latreille. He was curator of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean collection in Paris and described many new species of beetles and butterflies of the expeditions of research vessels " Astrolabe " of Jean -François de Galaup, Baron de La Pérouse and the " Coquille " of Louis Isidore Duperrey had been collected.
Collection material
However, the material described was mostly not in Paris. Thus, the Elateridae described by Boisduval are today at the Natural History Museum in London and the types of Curculionidae in the Natural History Museum in Brussels. The butterflies were sold to Charles Oberthuer ( 1845-1924 ). The Sphingidae are now in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Scientific works
Boisduval published, partly in collaboration with other researchers, more than 30 major scientific works.
Little known is that his first publications concerned with plants. 1827-1828 appeared the three volumes Manuel complet de botanique at Roret in Paris.
1829 followed the work " Europaeorum lepidopterorum index methodicus ( tableau méthodique of lépidoptères d'Europe ). La même année, il commence la publication de l' Iconographie et Histoire Naturelle of coleopteres d'Europe ".
Together with John Le Conte Eatton he published from 1829 to 1837 in Paris the work Histoire général et iconographie of lepidoptérès et de l' Amerique septentrionale of chenille ( in English General history and illustrations of the Lepidoptera and caterpillars of Northern America ). The complete work was not completed before 1837. The first project dealt with beetles, which he published along with Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean in the Iconographie et histoire naturelle of coleopteres d'Europe. The work was published from 1832 to 1837 in Brussels in multiple deliveries.
A classic was the band on the insects that were collected from the research expedition with the " Astrolabe " ( Jules Dumont d' Urville (ed.) Voyage de l' Astrolabe. ' Faune entomologique de l' Océanie par le Dr Boisduval. Tome 1: Lepidoptères (1832 ), Tome 2 coleopteres, Hémiptères, orthopterous Névroptères, Hyménoptères et Diptères (1835 ) ). Together with Adolphe de Graslin and Jules Pièrre Rambur 1832 he published the "Collection iconographique et historique of chenille d'Europe ", an important work on the scale insects. From living on thistles and prickly pear cactus ( Opuntia ) Cochenilleschildlaus ( Dactylopius coccus Costa or Coccus cacti Linnaeus) was ( among other species ) then won the red dye scarlet. The cochineal was an important industry in some parts of Europe.
The " Icônes historique nouveaux ou peu of lépidoptères connus. Collection of ... papillons d'Europe nouvelle ment découverts ... " appear from 1832 to 1834 at Roret in Paris.
For the butterfly research that certainly was the most important work ( published together with Guenée ) Histoire Naturelle Des Insectes, which appeared in several deliveries from 1852 to 1874. However, the practical use of his scientific results of his entomological research for horticultural interest him. In 1867 he published the book " Essai sur l' entomology horticole, comprenant l' histoire des insectes nuisibles à l' horticulture avec l' indication of moyens propres à les éloigner ou à l' histoire et les détruire of insectes et autres animaux aux utiles cultures. "which appeared in the Librairie d' Horticulture of E. Donnaud in Paris.
Patronyme
As one of the leading researchers of the butterfly first half of the 19th century, he was honored by many later colleagues through the designation of butterfly species. Koçak & Koçak (2008) lists 20 Patronyme spread mainly across different groups in diurnal.