Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville (his name, before the Revolution

French Revolution

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, included a particle: Audinet de Serville) was a French

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 entomologist, born on November 11, 1775 in Paris

Paris

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. He died on March 27 , 1858 in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre

La Ferté-sous-Jouarre

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.

He was initiated, says one, by Madam de Grostête-Tigny who was impassioned, like her husband, by chemistry

Chemistry

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 and insects. Audinet-Serville met, thanks to her, Pierre André Latreille

Pierre André Latreille

Pierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis...

 (1762-1833). Latreille collaborated with him in the Dictionnaire des Insectes de l’Encyclopédie méthodique . Then, working with Guillaume-Antoine Olivier

Guillaume-Antoine Olivier

Guillaume-Antoine Olivier was a French entomologist.He was the author of Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes and Le Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse . He was a close friend of Johan Christian Fabricius and a patron of Pierre André Latreille.-References:...

 (1756-1814), he finished the book Faune française in 1830.

Audinet-Serville is particularly famous for his work on the Orthoptera

Orthoptera

Orthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.Many insects in this order produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps...

. He published, in particular, Revue méthodique de l’ordre des Orthoptères which appeared in Annales des sciences naturelles in 1831. Then, in 1839, in the series of works entitled les Suites à Buffon

Suites à Buffon

Les Suites à Buffon is a French nineteenth-century scientific publicationLes Suites à Buffon carries the complete title Suites à Buffon formant avec les œuvres de cet auteur un cours complet d'histoire naturelle embrassant les trois règnes de la nature, confié aux plus célèbres naturalistes et...

, , a volume on the same order, Histoire naturelle des Insectes Orthoptères.

He was a friend of Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot

Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot

Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot was a French lawyer and entomologist especially interested in Hemiptera....

and wrote with him Histoire naturelle des insectes Hemipteres. Paris, Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret: 1-675 (1843) BDHL Scanhttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35025.

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