Paul Dognin

Paul Dognin (10 May 1847 – 10 August 1931) was a French entomologist who specialised in the Lepidoptera of South America. Dognin named 101 new genera of moths

Dognin lived at 11 Villa Molitor, Paris 16. He was a member of the Société entomologique de France.

His collection (82,000 specimens including 3,000 Dognin types and over 300 Thierry-Mieg types) is shared between the French Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. It was partially sold to William Schaus, who then donated it to National Museum of Natural History.