Baron Joachim-François Philibert Julien de Feisthamel (15 February 1791 – 17 January 1851) was a French

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

. Born in

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, Baron Joachim de Feisthamel was a soldier, variously a major d'infanterie, colonel then maréchal de camp. He was a Member of the

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and a Chevalier (Knight) of the

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. He died in Paris.

Works

partial list *1835 Heliconia leprieuri ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'' 4:631–632, plate 18 *1839. Supplement a la zoologie du voyage de la Favorite comprenant la description de lepidopteres nouveaux. ''Mag. Zool''. 9:17–26; 10 plates. eprinted in 1840: 13 pp., 10 pls. Paris: Bertrand(Supplement to Laplace, Cyrille Pierre Theodore ''Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine : execute sur la corvette de l'etat La Favorite pendant les annees 1830, 1831 et 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace capitaine de fregate Paris'' Imprimerie Royale, 1833–1839) *1850. Description de quelques Lépidoptères Rhopalocéres nouveaux ou peu connus, provenant de la Cazamance (Afrique) ''

Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Annals are a concise form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year. The equivalent word in Latin and French is ''annales'', which is used untranslated in English in various contexts. List of works with titles contai ...

'' (2) 8 : 247–262 *several papers on Coleoptera in '' Magasin de Zoologie'' and ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'' The butterfly ''

Iphiclides feisthamelii ''Iphiclides feisthamelii'', the southern scarce swallowtail, southern swallowtail or Iberian scarce swallowtail, is a butterfly found in Italy, Slovenia, southern France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. It is sometimes considered ...

was named in his honour.

References

*Jean Lhoste (1987). ''Les Entomologistes français. 1750–1950''. INRA Éditions . {{DEFAULTSORT:Feisthamel, Joachim Francois Philiberto de Knights of the Legion of Honour French lepidopterists 1791 births 1851 deaths 19th-century French zoologists French colonels People from Dieuze