Elzéar Emmanuel Arène Abeille de Perrin (3 January 1843,

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

– 9 October 1910, Marseille) 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 ...

. Abeille de Perrin was a

lawyer A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solic ...

in Marseille. He gave all his free time to entomology and 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 ...

for twenty years. He was especially interested in the cave species of the

Pyrenees The Pyrenees (; es, Pirineos ; french: Pyrénées ; ca, Pirineu ; eu, Pirinioak ; oc, Pirenèus ; an, Pirineus) is a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. It extends nearly from its union with the Cantabrian Mountains to C ...

. His best known publications are ''Monographie des malachites'' (1869), ''Études sur les coléoptères cavernicoles, suivies de la description de 27 coléoptères nouveaux français'' (1872), ''Notes sur les leptodirites'' (1878), and ''Synopsis critique et synonymique des chrysides de France'' (1878). His collection of

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

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 ...

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

, and

Orthoptera Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...

is conserved in

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 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 ...

in Paris.

References

*Ancey, F. 1910 beille de Perrin, E.''Ann. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulon'' 97–98, Portrait. *Buysson, H. du 1925 beille de Perrin, E. ''Misc. Entomol''. 28(12) 92. *Caillol, H. 1911 beille de Perrin, E.''Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.'' 80: 492–502 *Constantin, R. 1992 ''Memorial des Coléopteristes Francaise''. Bull. liaison Assoc. Col. reg. parisienne, Paris (Suppl. 14) : 1–92 7, Portrait. *Gouillard, J. 1991 Biography in ''Hist. Entomologistes francais'' 14 J. Gouillard: Histoire des entomologistes francais
/ref> *Lhoste, J. 1987 ''Les entomologistes français. 1750–1950. INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Paris : 1–355. *Pic, M. 1942 beille de Perrin, E. ''Mon Jub. ent., Echange (H. S.)'' 31–32. *Semenov-Tjan-Schanskij, A. P. 1912 beille de Perrin, E. ''Revue Russe d'Entomologie'' 12 635–636. *Seurat, L. G. 1930: beille de Perrin, E.''Explor. zool. Algérie'' 686.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abeille De Perrin, Arene 1843 births 1910 deaths French entomologists Hymenopterists