Joseph Alexandre Laboulbène (25 August 1825

Agen Agen (, , ) is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Southwestern France. It lies on the river Garonne, southeast of Bordeaux. In 2021, the commune had a population of 32,485. Geography The city of Agen l ...

– 7 December 1898,

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

) was a French

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and

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 ...

. A friend of the entomologist Jean-Marie Léon Dufour (1780–1865), he studied medicine in the University of Paris and was awarded the title Docteur in 1854. He taught in the medical faculty until 1879. Laboulbène was interested in harmful insects notably in the Order

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advance ...

. The order of mushrooms

Laboulbeniales The Laboulbeniales is an order of fungi within the class Laboulbeniomycetes. They are also known by the colloquial name beetle hangers or labouls. The order includes around 2,325 species of obligate insect ectoparasites that produce cellular ...

, is dedicated to him, by Engler in 1898. In 1853, '' Laboulbenia'' which is a

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in the family

Laboulbeniaceae The Laboulbeniaceae are a family of fungi in the order Laboulbeniales. Taxa have a widespread distribution, and are parasitic to various orders of insects Insects (from Latin ') are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are ...

, was named in his honour.

Works

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Léon Fairmaire Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a French entomologist. As a specialist in Coleoptera, he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780–1845). This is in the ...

(1854). ''Faune Entomologique Française. Coleoptera''. Paris : Deyrolle Vol. 1 665 pp also Felix Malteste et Cie., Paris?. (1854). * 1874) ''Notices nécrologique sur le docteur Antoine Dours'', in: Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Vol. 43, pp. 351–358

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*Jean Lhoste (1987). Les Entomologistes français. 1750–1950. INRA Éditions : 351 p. *Translation from French Wikipedia. Scientists from Paris French entomologists Presidents of the Société entomologique de France Dipterists People from Agen 1825 births 1898 deaths {{entomologist-stub