Charles Théophile Bruand d'Uzelle (5 March 1808,

Besançon Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerl ...

– 3 August 1861, Besançon) 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 ...

who specialised in

microlepidoptera Microlepidoptera (micromoths) is an artificial (i.e., unranked and not monophyletic) grouping of moth families, commonly known as the 'smaller moths' (micro, Lepidoptera). These generally have wingspans of under 20 mm, and are thus harder to ...

. He described several new species and erected the families

Elachistidae The Elachistidae (grass-miner moths) are a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly results in a massively paraphyletic and co ...

Oecophoridae Oecophoridae (concealer moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The phylogeny and systematics of gelechoid moths are still not fully resolved, and the circumscription of the Oecophoridae is strongly affected by this. Ta ...

and Roeslerstammiidae and the geometrid tribes

Ourapterygini The Ourapterygini are one of the large tribes of geometer moths in the subfamily Ennominae. The tribe was described by Charles Théophile Bruand d'Uzelle in 1846. They are particularly plentiful in the Neotropics. Ourapterygini are generally hel ...

and

Hemitheini Though small in absolute diversity of genera, the Hemitheini are nonetheless the largest tribes of geometer moths in the subfamily Geometrinae. Like most Geometrinae, they are small greenish "emerald moths". The tribe was first described by Cha ...

. 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 ...

. His

macrolepidoptera Macrolepidoptera is a group within the insect order Lepidoptera. Traditionally used for the larger butterflies and moths as opposed to the "microlepidoptera", this group is artificial. However, it seems that by moving some taxa about, a monoph ...

and

Psychidae The Psychidae (bagworm moths, also simply bagworms or bagmoths) are a family of the Lepidoptera ( butterflies and moths). The bagworm family is fairly small, with about 1,350 species described. Bagworm species are found globally, with some, ...

collections are held by the

Natural History Museum, London The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum an ...

and the microlepidoptera by the

Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

Works

*Bruand d'Uzelle, C. T. (1841) Notices sur quelques Lépidoptères très-rares, ou nouveaux pour le département du Doubs, ''Annales de la société d'émulation du Doubs'' *Bruand d'Uzelle, C. T. (1845-47) Catalogue systématique et synonymique des lépidoptères du Département du Doubs, ''Annales de la société d'émulation du Doubs'' *Bruand d'Uzelle, C. T. (1848) Monographie des Lépidoptères nuisibles, ''Annales de la société d'émulation du Doubs'' *Bruand d'Uzelle, C. T. (1852) Monographie des Psychides, ''Annales de la société d'émulation du Doubs'
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*Bruand d'Uzelle, C. T. (1859) Essai monographique sur le genre Coleophora, ''Annales de la société entomologique de France.'' *Bruand d'Uzelle, C. T. (1859) Observations sur divers lépidoptères, description d'espèces nouvelles propres à la faune française, ''Annales de la société entomologique de France''.

References

Gaedike, R.; Groll, E. K. & Taeger, A. 2012: Bibliography of the entomological literature from the beginning until 1863: online database – version 1.0 – Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut.
Groll, E. K. 2017: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World. – Online database, version 8, Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg – URL: sdei.senckenberg.de/biografies *Millière, P. 1861: Notice nécrologue sur Ch.-Th. Bruand d'Uzelle. ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'', 4. Série 1, S. 651-656 1882, pp. +Schr.verz 1808 births 1861 deaths French lepidopterists Scientists from Besançon 19th-century French zoologists {{entomologist-stub