Ferdinand Le Cerf (3 October 1881,

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– 1945, Paris) 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

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. He was a ''préparateur'' or technician in the entomological laboratories of

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in Paris (where his collections are preserved). He wrote three volumes on Lepidoptera in the '' Encyclopedie Entomologique'' (Lechevalier Paris 1926, 1927 and 1929) and many scientific papers in the ''Bulletin 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 ...

'' of which he was a member. A room within the Paris Museum was until recently dedicated to him, but was disassembled in the 2010s.

References

* Anonymous (1945). e Cerf, F.''Graellsia''. 3: 173. * Anonymous (1945). e Cerf, F.''Entomological News''. 56: 259. * Fletcher, T. B. (1945). e Cerf, F.''The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation''. 57: 76. * Lhoste, J. (1987). ''Les entomologistes français. 1750-1950''. INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Paris: 1-355, 176, 181-182. * Oberthür, C. (1915). e Cerf, F.''Études Lép''. Comp. 10.

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Documents disponibles au laboratoire de chimie du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. Travaux scientifique Le Cerf
1881 births 1945 deaths Le Cerf, Ferdinand National Museum of Natural History (France) people 20th-century French zoologists {{entomologist-stub