Charles A. Alluaud
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Charles A. Alluaud (4 May 1861, Limoges – 12 December 1949, Crozant) was a French entomologist.[1]
Biography
The Alluaud family had owned porcelain factories since the 18th century. His great grandfather had been chairman of the Script error: No such module "Lang". and his grandfather, François Alluaud (1778–1866), was a porcelain manufacturer, archaeologist, and geologist. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) taught painting to Charles and his brother Eugene.
Charles left Limoges for Paris to supplement his studies but was an undisciplined pupil. The death of his parents enabled him to become an explorer. From 1887 to 1930, he went on many journeys in Africa (Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Kilimanjaro, Tunisia, Morocco, Sudan, the Sahara, Niger), the Canary Islands, Seychelles and Mascarene Islands. He assembled important collections of insects during his voyages, later giving these to the entomology department of the Script error: No such module "Lang".. He was the author of 165 entomological publications. He was president of the Script error: No such module "Lang". in 1899 and 1914.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Legacy
Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855–1904) dedicated the plant genus Alluaudia to him.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
A genus and three species of reptiles are named in his honor: Alluaudina, Amphiglossos alluaudi, Langaha alluaudi, and Uroplatus alluaudi.[2] A species of ant, Plagiolepis alluaudi, is also named after him.[3]
Selected works
- Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911–1912). Résultats scientifiques, 1-6. (1913–1919).
References
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- ↑ René Gabriel Jeannel (1952). Charles Alluaud (1861-1949). Annales de la Société entomologique de France 121: 1-22.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. ("Alluaud", p. 6).
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Sources
- Jean Lhoste (1987). French Entomologists. 1750–1950. INRA Editions: 351 p.
- Translation from French Wikipedia