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Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville (; his name, before the
Revolution
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, included a
particle
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: Audinet de Serville) 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 ...
,
born on 11 November 1775 in
Paris
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. He died on 27 March 1858 in
La Ferté-sous-Jouarre
La Ferté-sous-Jouarre () is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-et-Marne Departments of France, département in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region in north-central France.
It is located at a crossing point over the river Marne ...
.
He was introduced to entomology by
Madame de Grostête-Tigny who was fascinated, like her husband, by
chemistry
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and
insects
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of j ...
. Through her, Audinet-Serville met
Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille (; 29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom ...
(1762–1833). Latreille worked with him on the ''Dictionnaire des Insectes de l’Encyclopédie méthodique'' ("The Methodical Encyclopedia Dictionary of Insects").
Then, working with
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (; 19 January 1756, Les Arcs near Toulon – 1 October 1814, Lyon) was a French entomologist and naturalist.
Life
Olivier studied medicine in Montpellier, where he became good friends with Pierre Marie Auguste Brou ...
(1756–1814), he finished the book ''Faune française'' ("French Fauna") in 1830.
Audinet-Serville is particularly known for his work on the
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 ...
. He published, ''Revue méthodique de l’ordre des Orthoptères'' ("Methodical Review of the Order of Orthoptera") which appeared in ''Annales des sciences naturelles'' in 1831. Then, in 1839, in the series of works entitled ''les
Suites à Buffon
Les ''Suites à Buffon'' is a French language, French 19th-century scientific publication.
Les ''Suites à Buffon'' carries the complete title ''Suites à Buffon formant avec les œuvres de cet auteur un cours complet d'histoire naturelle embrass ...
'', a volume on the same
order
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* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
, ''Histoire naturelle des Insectes Orthoptères'' ("Natural History of Orthoptera Insects").
He was a friend of
Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot
Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot (23 September 1799, in Vendreeuv – 13 October 1866, in Paris) was a French lawyer and entomologist especially interested in the Hemiptera.
After his father died, Amyot lived with a neighbor, a wealthy merchant, who ...
and wrote with him ''Histoire naturelle des insectes Hemipteres'' ("Natural History of Hemiptera Insects"). Paris, Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret: 1–675 (1843). and with
Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau
Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (9 October 1770 – 23 August 1845), also spelled Lepeletier or Lepelletier, was a French entomologist, and specialist in the Hymenoptera.
In 1833, he served as president of the Société ...
he contributed a treatise on Hemiptera to
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (; 19 January 1756, Les Arcs near Toulon – 1 October 1814, Lyon) was a French entomologist and naturalist.
Life
Olivier studied medicine in Montpellier, where he became good friends with Pierre Marie Auguste Brou ...
's natural history, ''Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes'' (''
Encyclopédie Méthodique
The ''Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières'' ("Methodical Encyclopedia by Order of Subject Matter") was published between 1782 and 1832 by the French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, his son-in-law Henri Agasse, and the latter's ...
'')
References
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1775 births
1858 deaths
Scientists from Paris
French entomologists
Presidents of the Société entomologique de France
18th-century French zoologists
19th-century French zoologists