Geneva
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– 5 October 1915, Geneva) was a
Swiss
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entomologist
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who specialised in
Lepidoptera
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.
Blachier taught
Grammar
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.
He was a Member of the
Société entomologique de France
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The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832. The first ...
. His collections of
Palearctic
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Lepidoptera are held by the
Natural History Museum of Geneva
The Natural History Museum of Geneva (in French: ') is a natural history museum in Geneva, Switzerland.
Louis Jurine’s collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are held by the museum.
Other displays include a ...
.
Works
*1905 Descriptions sommaires d'espèces et de variétés nouvelles de Lépidoptères paléarctiques ''Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France'' 1905: 52-54
*1905 Descriptions de Lépidoptères nouveaux du
Maroc
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. ''Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France'':212-215.
*1908 Lépidoptères du Maroc - Remarque sur diverses espèces et descriptions de variétés nouvelles ''Ann. Soc. ent. Fr.'' 77 (2) : 209-222
*1912 Espèces ou formes nouvelles de Lépidoptères africains appartenant aux genres ''
Acraea
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*Acraea, the naiad daughter of the river-god Asterion near Mycenae, who together with her sisters Euboea and Prosymn ...
'' et ''
Mylothris
''Mylothris'', commonly called dotted borders, is a genus of Pieridae, pierid butterfly, butterflies found in Africa.
Species
Listed alphabetically within groups:rown, F. R. F.''Etudes de lepidopterologie comparée'' 11
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Swiss lepidopterists
1859 births
1915 deaths
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