Abel Dufrane (8 May 1880, in Frameries – 29 December 1960, in

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) was a Belgian

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

who specialised in

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. Dufrane studied the butterfly fauna of the Lake Kivu area of Central Africa. He was a member of the

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Works

*Dufrane, A. (1929). Variation chez Papilio (S.S.) antimachus Drury. ''Lambillionea'' 29:138-139. *————— (1933). Quelques Rhopaloceres. ''Lambillionea'' 33:164-166. *————— (1936). Sur quelques espèces du genre Papilio. ''Lambillionea'' 36:40-42. *————— (1939). Lepidopteres du Kivu. ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 79:405-408. *————— (1940). Lepidopteres du Kivu (2e note) (1). ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 80:129-134. *————— (1945). Lepidopteres du Kivu (3e note) (1). ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 81:90-143. *————— (1946). Papilionidae. ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 82:101-122. *————— (1947). Pieridae. ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 83:46-73. *————— (1948). Lepidopteres du Kivu. Quatrieme Note (1). ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 84:160-168. *————— (1948). A propos de Danaus (Limnas Hbn) chrysippus L. (Lep. Danaidae). ''Miscellania Entomologica'' 45:49-51. *————— (1948). Note sur les Danaidae. ''Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linneenne de Lyon'' 17:192-194. *————— (1948). Lepidopteres du Kivu (4e note). ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 84:160-168. *————— (1953). Lepidopteres du Kivu (5e note). ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 89:41-57. *————— (1954). A propos de Syntarucus pulchra Murray (Lep. Lyc.). ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 90:66-68. *————— (1954). Sur quelques Lycaenidae d’Afrique. ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 90:282-286.

References

*Berger, L. A., 1960 Obituary ''Lambillionea. Rev. bimestr.'', Bruxelles 60 : 73-74 *Pierard, C., 1961 Obituary ''Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique'' 97: 72-89, Portrait Belgian entomologists Belgian lepidopterists 1880 births 1960 deaths 20th-century Belgian zoologists {{Belgium-scientist-stub