Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician.

He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entomologique de France. While best known abroad for his work in entomology, he started his career in botany, collecting a great number of French plant specimens and writing broadly on the topic throughout his career, including the textbook Flores française in 1828.

Works

  • Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour Boisduval and John Eatton Le Conte, 1829–1837 Histoire général et iconographie des lepidoptérès et des chenilles de l'Amerique septentrionale (in English, General history and illustrations of the Lepidoptera and caterpillars of Northern America) published in Paris. Many of the illustrations for this work were done by John Abbot. The work was not completed until 1837.
  • Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour Boisduval, Jules Pierre Rambur and Adolphe Hercule de Graslin Collection iconographique et historique des chenilles; ou, Description et figures des chenilles d'Europe, avec l'histoire de leurs métamorphoses, et des applications à l'agriculture, Paris, Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 1832.
  • Jules Dumont d'Urville Ed. Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Faune entomologique de l'Océanie par le Dr Boisduval. Tome 1: Lepidoptéres (1832); Tome 2: Coléoptères, Hémiptères, Orthoptères Névroptères, Hyménoptères et Diptères (1835).
  • Boisduval, J. B., Mémoire sur les Lépidoptères de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 2:149–270. (1833) online here and published by Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1833
  • Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. Tome Premier Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 1 : 1–690 (1836)
  • Boisduval, J. B., 1852. Lepidoptères de la Californie Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 10(2):275–324.

See also

  • Euryades corethrus

References

  • Boisduval watercolours
  • Boisduval's major works online at Gallica
  • NHM Database