Achille Raffray
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Achille Raffray was a French
, diplomat
, traveller, zoologist and entomologist.
He wrote:-
Partial List
Entomology
Geography
Achille Raffray was a member of the Société entomologique de France
and the Société de Géographie
His massive collections of world beetles were sold and are conserved in many European museums.
Raffray's Bandicoot
was named for him by the Parisian zoologist Henri Milne-Edwards
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, diplomat
Diplomat
A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...
, traveller, zoologist and entomologist.
He wrote:-
Partial List
Entomology
- (1890) Étude sur le Psélaphides. V. Tableux synoptiques. Notes et synonymie. Revue d'Entomologie(Caen) 9: 81–172.
- with BolívarIgnacio BolívarIgnacio Bolívar y Urrutia was a Spanish naturalist and entomologist, and one of the founding fathers of Spanish entomology...
and Eugéne SimonEugène SimonEugène Simon was a French arachnologist. His many taxonomic contributions include categorizing and naming many spiders, as well as creating genera such as Anelosimus, Psellocoptus and Phlogius....
1892. Voyage de M. E. Simon aux îles Philippines (Mars et Avril 1890). 4e mémoire. Etude sur les arthropodes cavernicoles de l'île de Luzon.Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 61: 27-52, Pl. 1-2. - (1900) Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131–249, pl. 1
- 1904. Genera et catalogue des Psélaphides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 73: 1–400
- 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. pp. 1–487, pls i–ix in Wytsman, P.Philogène Auguste Galilée WytsmanPhilogène Auguste Galilée Wytsman was a Belgian ornithologist, entomologist and publisher most noted for his serial publications Genera Avium and Genera Insectorum....
(ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. - (1912) with Antoine Henri GrouvelleAntoine Henri GrouvelleAntoine Henri Grouvelle was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He was an engineer who directed a tobacco factory....
Supplément à la Liste des Coléoptères de la Guadeloupe Ann. Soc. Entom. France vol. 81
Geography
- 'Voyage en Abyssinie, a Zanzibar et au pays des Ouanika', Bulletin de la. Societe de Geographie x, No. 6 (1875)
Achille Raffray was a member of the Société entomologique de France
Société entomologique de France
The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. It was founded in 1832.The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832...
and the Société de Géographie
Société de Géographie
The Société de Géographie , is the world's oldest geographical society. It was founded in 1821 . Since 1878, its headquarters has been at 184 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris. The entrance is marked by two gigantic caryatids representing Land and Sea...
His massive collections of world beetles were sold and are conserved in many European museums.
Raffray's Bandicoot
Raffray's Bandicoot
Raffray's Bandicoot is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests....
was named for him by the Parisian zoologist Henri Milne-Edwards
Henri Milne-Edwards
Henri Milne-Edwards was an eminent French zoologist.Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and militia colonel in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a French. He was born in Bruges, Belgium, where his parents had retired. At that time, Bruges was a part of the...
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External links
- DEI Collection details.