Léon Fairmaire

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Léon Fairmaire.

Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (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. Faimaire wrote 450 scientific papers and other publications relating to Coleoptera (partial list of papers in Wikispecies). He also worked on Hemiptera.

External links

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 BNF: cb15531283n

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Name	Fairmaire, Leon
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Short description	French entomologist
Date of birth	1820
Place of birth
Date of death	1 April 1906
Place of death

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