Achille Guenée (sometimes M.A. Guenée; 1 January 1809 – 30 December 1880) was a French lawyer and

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Biography

Achille Guenée was born in

Chartres Chartres () is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir Departments of France, department in the Centre-Val de Loire Regions of France, region in France. It is located about southwest of Paris. At the 2019 census, there were 1 ...

and died in Châteaudun. He was educated in Chartres, where he showed a very early interest in butterflies and was encouraged and taught by François de Villiers (1790–1847). He went to study law in Paris, then entered the “Bareau”. After the death of his only son, he lived at Châteaudun in Chatelliers. During the

Franco-Prussian War The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 Janua ...

of 1870, Châteaudun was burned by the Prussians but Guénée's collections remained intact. He was the author of 63 publications, some with Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel (1774–1846). He notably wrote ''Species des nocturnes '' (''Night Species'' in English) (six volumes, 1852–1857) forming parts of the '' Suites à Buffon''. This work of almost 1,300 pages treats

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of the world. Also co-author, with

Jean Baptiste Boisduval Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société ento ...

, of ''Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères'' (vols 5–10, 1836–57). He was a founding member 1832 of the Société Entomologique de France, (1832) and was president in 1848 then honorary member in 1874. He was among the first to describe the '' Cadra calidella'' species."GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved June 21, 2017.

References

* Edward Oliver Essig (1931). In ''History of Entomology''. Mac Millan (New York): vii + 1029 p. *Jean Gouillard (2004). ''History of the French entomologists'', 1750–1950. Entirely re-examined and increased edition. Boubée (Paris): 287 p. *Jean Lhoste (1987). ''French Entomologists''. 1750–1950. INRA Editions: 351 p. French entomologists French taxonomists Presidents of the Société entomologique de France 1809 births 1880 deaths People from Chartres 19th-century French zoologists {{entomologist-stub