Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau
Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau
Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (October 9, 1770 – August 23, 1845), also spelled Lepeletier or Lepelletier, was a French entomologist, and specialist in the Hymenoptera. In particular, he was responsible for naming several different bee species, including Xylocopa micans and Schwarziana quadripunctata.
From the year of 1833 until his death, he served as president of the Société entomologique de France.
Works
- with Gaspard Auguste Brullé Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères. Roret, Paris 1836–46 p.m.
- Memoires sur le G. Gorytes Latr. Arpactus Jur. Paris 1832.
- Monographia tenthredinetarum, synonimia extricata. Levrault, Paris 1823–25.
- Mémoire sur quelques espéces nouvelles d’Insectes de la section des hyménoptères appelés les portetuyaux et sur les caractères de cette famille et des genres qui la composent. Paris 1806.
- Défense de Félix Lepeletier. Vatar, Paris 1796/97.
- with Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville a treatise on Hemiptera to Guillaume-Antoine Olivier's Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes (Encyclopédie Méthodique)
References
Baker, D.B. Type material in the University Museum, Oxford, of bees described by Comte Amédée Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau and Pierre André Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) Journal of Natural History, Volume 28, Issue 5 October 1994, pages 1189 - 1204
External links
Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères at BDH
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