Jules Pierre Rambur (21 July 1801 – 10 August 1870) was a French

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. Rambur was born in

Chinon Chinon () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire, France. The traditional province around Chinon, Touraine, became a favorite resort of French kings and their nobles beginning in the late 15th and early 16th centur ...

. He studied the insect fauna of Corsica and

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. He was the author of ''Histoire naturelle des insectes'' (1842) amongst other works. He died in

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. He was a Member and later (1839)

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of the

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Publications

*''Catalogue des lépidoptères insectes Néuroptères de l’île de Corse'' (1832) *''Faune entomologique de l’Andalousie'' (two volumes, 1837–1840) *''Histoire naturelle des insectes( part of the ''

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'', 1842) *''Catalogue systématique des Lépidoptères de l’Andalousie'' (1858–1866). *with Adolphe Hercule de Graslin and

Jean Baptiste Boisduval Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entom ...

''Collection iconographique et historique des chenilles; ou, Description et figures des chenilles d'Europe, avec l'histoire de leurs métamorphoses, et des applications à l'agriculture'' Paris,Librairie encyclopédique de

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,1832.

Sources

*Jean Gouillard (2004). ''Histoire des entomologistes français, 1750–1950''. Édition entièrement revue et augmentée. Boubée (Paris), 287 p. * (1987). ''Les Entomologistes français. 1750–1950''. INRA Éditions.

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