Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (9 October 1770 – 23 August 1845), also spelled Lepeletier or Lepelletier, was a
French entomologist
Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...
, and specialist in the
Hymenoptera
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Females typi ...
.
In 1833, he served as president of the
Société entomologique de France
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Works
*with
Gaspard Auguste Brullé
Gaspard Auguste Brullé (7 April, 1809 – 21 January, 1873) was a French entomologist.
Passionate about insects from a young age and through the intervention of Georges Cuvier, he participated in the Morea expedition organised by Jean Baptiste ...
''
Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères''.
Roret, Paris 1836–46 p.m.
*''Memoires sur le G. Gorytes Latr. Arpactus Jur''. Paris 1832.
*''Monographia tenthredinetarum, synonimia extricata''. Levrault, Paris 1823–25.
*''Mémoire sur quelques espéces nouvelles d'Insectes de la section des hyménoptères appelés les portetuyaux et sur les caractères de cette famille et des genres qui la composent''. Paris 1806.
*''Défense de Félix Lepeletier''. Vatar, Paris 1796/97.
*with
Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville a treatise on Hemiptera to
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (; 19 January 1756, Les Arcs near Toulon – 1 October 1814, Lyon) was a French entomologist and naturalist.
Life
Olivier studied medicine in Montpellier, where he became good friends with Pierre Marie Auguste Br ...
's Histoire naturelle. ''Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes'' (''
Encyclopédie Méthodique
The ''Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières'' () was published between 1782 and 1832 by the France, French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, his son-in-law Henri Agasse, and the latter's wife, Thérèse-Charlotte Agasse. Arranged by ...
'')
References
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External links
''Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères'' at BDH
AtlasVolume 1Volume 2Volume 3Volume 4
French entomologists
French taxonomists
1770 births
1845 deaths
Hymenopterists
18th-century French zoologists
19th-century French zoologists
Presidents of the Société entomologique de France
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