Edmond Jean Baptiste Fleutiaux (22 October 1858,
Argenteuil
Argenteuil () is a Communes of France, commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. Argenteuil is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise Departments of France, ...
,
Val-d'Oise – 1951) 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
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 ...
.
Fleutiaux worked on the beetle fauna of
Southeast Asia, particularly
French Indochina and
Africa. He wrote ''Catalogue systématique des Cicindelidae décruits depuis Linné'' (1892) and ''Revision des Eucnemides africains'' (1945). His collection is conserved by the
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Fleutiaux was a member of the
Société entomologique de France.
1858 births
1951 deaths
People from Argenteuil
French entomologists
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