Émile Louis Ragonot (12 October 1843 – 13 October 1895) was a French
entomologist
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. In 1885, he became president of the ''
Société entomologique de France
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''.
He named 301 new genera of butterflies and moths, mostly
pyralid moths.
Natural History Museum, London
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He is also the author of several books:
* Diagnoses of North American Phycitidae and Galleriidae (1887) published in Paris
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* Nouveaux genres et espèces de Phycitidae & Galleriidae (1888)
* Essai sur une classification des Pyralites (1891-1892)
* Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae. pp. 1–602 In N.M. Romanoff. ''Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères''. Tome VIII. N.M. Romanoff, Saint-Petersbourg. xli + 602 pp. (1901)
Ragonot's collection can be found in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
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, Paris, France.
Notes
References
* Luquet, G. C. 2001: agonot, E. L.- Alexanor 21 1999(4) Portrait
External links
Ragonot , 1890. Essai sur la classification des Pyralites. - Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 10: 435-546
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1843 births
1895 deaths
French lepidopterists
Presidents of the Société entomologique de France
19th-century French zoologists