Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a French
entomologist.
A specialist in
Coleoptera he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of
Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean
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(1780-1845). This is in the
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
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. Fairmaire wrote 450 scientific papers and other publications relating to Coleoptera (
partial list of papers in Wikispecies). He also worked on
Hemiptera.
External links
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Histoire Naturelle de France Hemipteres Musée Scolaire Deyrolle (1884).Scan
1820 births
1906 deaths
French entomologists
Presidents of the Société entomologique de France
Coleopterists
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