Benoit-Philibert Perroud (1796

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

-1887, Lyon), 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 ...

. Benoit-Philibert Perroud was a specialist 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 ...

. 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 ...

, the

Société Linnéenne de Lyon Lactalis is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier SA. Lactalis is the largest dairy products group in the world, and is the sec ...

and the

Entomological Society of Stettin The Entomological Society of Stettin (german: Entomologischer Verein zu Stettin) or Stettin Entomological Society, based in Stettin (Szczecin), was one of the leading entomological societies of the 19th century. Most German entomologists were membe ...

Works

partial list *Perroud, B. P. 1855. Description de quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connus et création de quelques nouveaux genres dans la famille des longicornes. ''Annales de la Societé Linneene de Lyon'' (2)2:327-401. *Perroud, B.-P. and Montrousier, P everendus Pater 1864: Essai sur la faune entomologique de Kanala (Nouvelle Calédonie) et descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues. ''Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon'', 11: 46-257.

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French entomologists Coleopterists Scientists from Lyon 1796 births 1887 deaths {{entomologist-stub