Auguste Sallé (1820 – 5 May 1896,
Paris
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) was a French
travel
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ler and
entomologist
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who specialised in
Coleoptera
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
.
Following expeditions to the
Southern States of the USA, the
West Indies
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,
Central America
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(especially
Mexico
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), and
Venezuela
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on behalf of
Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat
Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat was a French entomologist, born 29 March 1799 in Paris and died 16 December 1884 in Paris.
In government service in Paris, this amateur entomologist studied mainly beetles and birds. He published nearly 250 note ...
and accompanied by his mother and a M. Vasselet, Sallé returned to Paris to set up as a natural history and insect dealer. The business thrived, and he sold specimens to many very wealthy amateur entomologists:
Edmond Jean-Baptiste Fleutiaux,
Henri Boileau,
Neervoort Jacob R. H. van de Poll,
René Oberthür René Oberthür (1852, Rennes – 27 April 1944) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
With his brother Charles Oberthür he worked in "Imprimerie Oberthür" the very successful printing business founded by his father François-C ...
,
Antoine Henri Grouvelle Antoine Henri Grouvelle (17 January 1843 – 9 June 1917 Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
He was also an engineer who directed a tobacco factory.
He worked on world fauna of the heterogeneous group of beet ...
,
Grivard, and
André Thery as well as to other Paris dealerships of
Henri Donckier de Donceel
Charles Donckier de Donceel (1802 in Chératte, Liège – 29 June 1888, in Brussels) was a Belgian entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera. He wrote (1882) Catalogue des Lépidoptères de Belgique. ''Annales de la Société entomolog ...
,
Achille Deyrolle
Achille Deyrolle (2 October 1813 in Lille – 31 December 1865) was a French entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera.
Born in Lille Deyrolle eventually settled in Brussels where he worked with his father in the City Museum. He went on a scien ...
and
Émile Deyrolle
Émile Deyrolle (1838–1917) was a French naturalist and natural history dealer in Paris.
The business was originally owned by his naturalist grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle who opened his shop in 1831 at 23, Rue de la Monnaie. Émile’s f ...
. These specimens together with his private collection are in the ''
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
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''. Insects sold to
Frederick DuCane Godman
Frederick DuCane Godman DCL FRS FLS FGS FRGS FES FZS MRI FRHS (15 January 1834 – 19 February 1919) was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Un ...
and
Osbert Salvin
Osbert Salvin FRS (25 February 1835 – 1 June 1898) was an English naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist best known for co-authoring ''Biologia Centrali-Americana'' (1879–1915) with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume encyc ...
are in the
Natural History Museum
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,
London
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.
He was a member 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 ...
'' and the
Entomological Society of London
The Royal Entomological Society is devoted to the study of insects. Its aims are to disseminate information about insects and improving communication between entomologists.
The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of Londo ...
Sallé is commemorated in the
scientific names
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
of two reptiles: a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of snake, ''
Geophis sallaei'' ; and a
subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
of lizard, ''
Anolis sericeus sallaei''.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Sallé", p. 232).]
References
Further reading
*Anonym 1896
alle, A.''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' (3) 32 141
*Constantin, R. 1992 ''Memorial des Coléopteristes Français''. Bull. liaison Assoc. Col. reg. parisienne, Paris (Suppl. 14) : 1-92 81-82
*Meldola, R. 1896
alle, A. ''Proc. Ent. Soc. London'' 1896 93-94
External links
*
Sclater P.L., 1856. Catalogue of the birds collected by Auguste Sallé in southern Mexico, with descriptions of new species.''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 24: 283-31
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1820 births
1896 deaths
French entomologists