Léon Fairmaire

Léon Fairmaire.

Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a French entomologist.

A specialist in Coleoptera he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780-1845). This is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Fairmaire wrote 450 scientific papers and other publications relating to Coleoptera (partial list of papers in Wikispecies). He also worked on Hemiptera.

External links

Works by or about Léon Fairmaire at Internet Archive
Scarab Workers
BDH Histoire Naturelle de France Hemipteres Musée Scolaire Deyrolle (1884).Scan

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 10624977 LCCN: n87137659 ISNI: 0000 0001 2120 5783 GND: 117498157 SUDOC: 112834051 BNF: cb15531283n (data)

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