Alexandre Louis Lefebvre de Cérisy (14 November 1798,
Paris
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– 2 December 1867, le
Bouchevilliers, near
Gisors
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Gisors, together with the neighbouring communes of Trie-Château and Trie-la-Vill ...
) was a French
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 ...
.
De Cérisy worked as clerk to a solicitor. It was
Jean Baptiste Godart
Jean-Baptiste Godart (25 November 1775 – 27 July 1825) was a French entomologist.
Born at Origny, Godart became impassioned by butterflies in his youth. He was charged by Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833) with writing the article on thes ...
(1775-1825) who introduced him to entomology.
Of all insect
orders
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* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
, he was principally interested in
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...
. Basing his studies on the use of the wing veins for the classification of
Hymenoptera
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, he proposed in 1842, a similar system of classification (based on the veins of the wings) for butterflies. He traveled throughout Europe, sometimes accompanied by naturalists such as
Achille Rémy Percheron Achille Rémy Percheron (25 January 1797 Paris – 1869) was a French entomologist. He listed, in ''Bibliographie entomologique'' more than 5 000 authors and 500 anonymous contributions.
Works
*With Hippolyte Louis Gory
Hippolyte Louis Gory (2 ...
(1797-1869) in
Provence
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and
Gabriel Bibron
Gabriel Bibron (20 October 1805 – 27 March 1848) was a French zoologist and herpetologist. He was born in Paris. The son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hir ...
(1805-1848) in
Sicily
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. He was at the founding meeting, February 29, 1832, of the
Société entomologique de France
The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. The society was founded in 1832 in Paris, France.
The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832. The first ...
Species of Lepidoptera named in honor of Cérisy are: ''
Allancastria cerisyi''
(Godart, 1822) and ''
Smerinthus cerisyi
''Smerinthus cerisyi'', the one-eyed sphinx or Cerisy's sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by William Kirby who named the species in honor of Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy in 1837.
Distribution ...
''
(Kirby, 1837).
French lepidopterists
1798 births
1867 deaths
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