Pierre Chrétien (1846 – 15 June 1934, in

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) 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 ...

who specialised in

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organ ...

. He was a member of

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. ''

Trifurcula chretieni ''Trifurcula'' is a genus of moths of the family Nepticulidae. For the Triassic aged Actinopterygii, ray-fin "''Glaucolepis''" Stensiö, 1921 (non ''Glaucolepis'' Braun, 1917) see ''Pteronisculus''. Selected species *''Trifurcula aerifica'' (Me ...

'' Z. & A. Lastuvka & van Nieukerken, 2013 is "named in honour of Pierre Chrétien (1846–1934), who discovered nepticulid mines on ''Bupleurum'', including those on '' Bupleurum rigidum'', and the first author to describe a number of Mediterranean species that are now placed in '' Trifurcula'' (''Glaucolepis'')." His collection is held by

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in Paris.

Works

Partial list *Chrétien, P. (1899). "Description d'un nouveau genre et d'une nouvelle espèce de Microlépidoptère". ''Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France''. 1899: 206. *————— (1900). "Les Coleophora du Dorycnium". ''Naturaliste''. 1900: 68–70. *————— (1901). "Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Teleia icrolep.. ''Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France''. 1901: 10–12. *————— (1907). "Description de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères d'Algerie". ''Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France''. 18: 305–308. *————— (1915). "Contribution á la connaissance des Lépidopteres du Nord de l'Afrique. Notes biologiques et criques". ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France''. 84: 289–374. *————— (1917). "Contribution á la connaissance des Lépidopteres du Nord de l'Afrique". ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France''. 85: 369–502.

References

*Anonymous (1934). "Chretien, P." ''Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France''. Paris 39. *Lhoste, J. (1987). ''Les entomologistes français''. 1750–1950. INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), 1–355. *Luquet, G. C. (2009). ''Alexanor, Revue française de Lépidoptérologie Cinquantième anniversaire''. Paris 24 (1): 5–62 ISSN 0002-5208. French lepidopterists 1846 births 1934 deaths People from Béarn 19th-century French zoologists 20th-century French zoologists {{Entomologist-stub

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