Achille Raffray

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Name Achille Raffray Role Diplomat		Died 1923

Achille Marie Jacques Raffray (17 October 1844 – 25 September 1923) was a French, diplomat, 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 Bolívar and Eugéne Simon 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. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman.

(1912) with Antoine Henri Grouvelle 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 and the Société de Géographie His massive collections of world beetles were sold and are conserved in many European museums.

Eponyms

Raffray's bandicoot, Peroryctes raffrayana, was named for him by the Parisian zoologist Henri Milne-Edwards.

A species of African snake, Scaphiophis raffreyi, was named in his honor by French herpetologist Marie Firmin Bocourt.

References

Achille Raffray Wikipedia

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