Jean Baptiste Boisduval
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Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval (1874) |
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval (
June 17,
1799–
December 30,
1879) was a
French lepidopterist and
physician. He developed the Boisduval scale and identified many new
species of
butterflies. One of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France he was the co-founder of the
Société Entomologique de France. Early in his career, he was interested in
Coleoptera and allied himself with both Lacordaire and Latreille. He was the curator of the
Pierre Françoise Marie Auguste Dejean collection in Paris and described many species of beetles as well as butterflies and moths resulting from the voyages of the "Astrolabe" the expedition ship of
Jean-François de Galaup, count de La Pérouse and the "Coquille" , that of
Louis Isidore Duperrey. Boisduval's
Elateridae are in the
Natural History Museum, London and the types of Curculionidae in Brussels Natural History Museum. His Lepidoptera were sold to
Charles Oberthür . The
Sphingidae are in the Carnegie Museum in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Jean Baptiste Alphonse DeChauffour Boisduval and
John Eatton Le Conte,
1829 Histoire général et iconographie des lepidoptérès et des chenilles de l'Amerique septentrionale . [ in English, General history and illustations of the
Lepidoptera and moths (sic) of
South America] published at
Paris. The work was not completed until
1842.
Jules Dumont d'Urville Ed. Voyage de l'Astrolabe.
Faune entomologique de l'Océanie par le Dr Boisduval. Tome 1 : Lepidoptéres (1832); Tome 2 Coléoptères, Hémiptères, Orthoptères Névroptères, Hyménoptères et Diptères (1835).
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Boisduval Watercolours
