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Émile Louis Ragonot

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Occupation
  
Entomologist


Name
  
Emile Ragonot

Born
  
October 12, 1843 (
1843-10-12
)
Paris, France

Died
  
October 13, 1895(1895-10-13) (aged 52) Paris, France

Emile Louis Ragonot (12 October 1843, Paris – 13 October 1895, Paris) was a French entomologist. In 1885 he became president of the Société entomologique de France.

He named 301 new genera of butterflies and moths, mostly pyralid moths.

He is also the author of several books:

  • Diagnoses of North American Phycitidae and Galleriidae (1887) published in Paris
  • (French) Nouveaux genres et espèces de Phycitidae & Galleriidae (1888)
  • (French) Essai sur une classification des Pyralites (1891-1892)
  • (French) Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae. pp. 1–602 In N.M. Romanoff. Mémoires sur les Lepidoptéres. Tome VIII. N.M. Romanoff, Saint-Petersbourg. xli + 602 pp. (1901)

    • Ragonot's collection can be found in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France.

    References

    Émile Louis Ragonot Wikipedia
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