Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille (* November 20, 1762 in Brive- la -Gaillarde, † February 6, 1833 in Paris) was a French entomologist.
Life
Pierre André Latreille was an illegitimate child of Jean Joseph SAHUGUET d' Amarzits (1713-1783), General Baron d' Espagnac, and an unknown mother, whose last name " Latreille " was formally zuerteilt him in 1813. From humble circumstances to arise in 1778 orphaned and destitute, Latreille found conveyor in Paris and was adopted by the mineralogist Abbé Haiiy.
He first studied in Brive, and later in Paris to become a priest. In 1780, he joined the Grand Séminaire of Limoges in and left this as a deacon in 1786. He returned in 1786 as deacon to Brive, where he devoted his spare time to entomology. In 1788 he again went back to Paris, where he attracted the attention of the professional world, with its treatises on the ants wasps ( Mutillidae ) France. During the Revolution, he was forced to leave as a priest with a conservative disposition Paris, for a while he was imprisoned in Bordeaux, acquired by the acquaintance of the naturalist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint -Vincent, but again the freedom. In 1796 he published Précis of caractères génériques of insectes, disposes dans un ordre naturel.
In 1798 he received the order to sort the insect collections of the Muséum National d' recently decorated Histoire Naturelle. In 1814 he is the successor of Guillaume Antoine Olivier member of the Académie des Sciences and in 1821 he became Knight of the Legion of Honour.
For a time he worked as a professor of zoology at the Veterinary School in Alfort, École nationale d' Alfort vétérinaire in Paris. After the death of Jean -Baptiste de Lamarck 1830, the Department of Zoology of invertebrates at the Museum of Natural History was divided, Latreille was appointed professor in the field of crustaceans, arachnids and insects, the area molluscs and worms received Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville.
On January 31, 1832 Latreille founded in Paris Société entomologique de France, the Entomological Society of France, whose presidency he held until his death. After his death in 1833 Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier took over the presidency.
From 1796 to 1833, Latreille published a number of writings that made him one of the founders of modern entomology. He described not only a large number of new species, but they also grouped in newly introduced genera and families, thus making an important contribution to biological systematics.
After Latreille named taxa
- Lumbrineris latreilli Audouin & H. Milne -Edwards, 1833
- Cecrops latreillii Leach, 1816
- H. Milne -Edwards Apseudes latreillii, 1828
- Orbinia latreillii Audouin & H. Milne -Edwards, 1833
- Cilicaea latreillei Leach, 1818
- Bittium latreillii Payraudeau, 1826
- Macrophthalmus latreillei Desmarest, 1822
- Eurypodius latreillei Guérin, 1828
Works
- P. A. Latreille: Précis of caractères génériques of insectes disposes dans un ordre naturel (1796 ).
- P. A. Latreille: Histoire naturelle of reptiles (4 volumes, 1801) avec Charles -Nicolas- de Manon Sigisbert Sonnini Court ( 1751-1812 ) (ce dernier ne Traite que des salamandres ) éditée comme une partie de l' œuvre de Buffon.
- P. A. Latreille: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière of crustacés et insectes (14 volumes, 1802-1805 ), éditée également dans une « suite » à Buffon.
- P. A. Latreille: Genera crustaceorum insectorum et secundum ordinem naturalem et familias disposita (4 volumes, 1806-1807 ).
- P. A. Latreille: Considérations sur l' ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes of crustacés, the Arachnoids, et des insectes (1810 ).
- P. A. Latreille: Familles you naturelles règne animal, exposés dans un ordre et succinctement Analytique (1825 ).
- P. A. Latreille: Cours d' entomology ( seul le premier volume Parait, 1831)