Charles Oberthür

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Charles Oberthür

Charles Oberthür (14 September 1845, Rennes – 1 June 1924) was a French entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera. He was the son of François-Charles Oberthür.

Oberthür named 42 new genera of moths.[1]

Oberthur acquired the collections of Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799–1879), Achille Guénée (1809–1880), Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie (1819–1888), Adolphe de Graslin (1802–1882), Constant Bar (1817–1884), Emmanuel Martin (1827– 1897), Antoine Barthélemy Jean Guillemot and Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892). His immense collection, at the end of his life, contained 5 million specimens in 15,000 glass topped boxes of 50 x 39 cm. In 1916, it was the second largest private collection in world.[2]

Works

Plate from Etudes d'Entomologie Fascicle VI 1912
Oberthür's tomb

Notes

  1. Butterflies & Moths of the World – Search Catalogue
  2. Chasing Butterflies for Money by J. McDunnough, in "Popular Science Monthly "number 6, vol 88, June 1916

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