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Antoine Henri Grouvelle

1843 – 1917

French entomologist

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Lived 1843 – 1917 (aged 74). Antoine Henri Grouvelle was a French entomologist.

Antoine Henri Grouvelle (17 January 1843 – 9 June 1917, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He was also an engineer who directed a tobacco factory.

Career Grouvelle worked on the world fauna of the heterogeneous group of beetles known as Clavicornia, describing hundreds of new species from material collected during French, Italian and Belgian colonial expeditions across Africa, Asia and the Americas. He was a member of the Société entomologique de France.

Selected works Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. L. Nitidulides, Cucujides et Parnides. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genova, 32: 813–868 (1892) Potamophilides, Dryopides, Helmides et Heterocerides des Indes orientales. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genova, Serie 2, 17(37): 1–25 (1896) Nitidulides, Colydiides, Cucujides et Parnides récoltés par M. E. Gounelle au Brésil et autres Clavicornes nouveaux d'Amerique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 65: 177–216 (1896) With Achille Raffray, Supplément à la Liste des Coléoptères de la Guadeloupe. Ann. Soc. Entom. France vol. 81 (1912) Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und dem umgebenden Massaisteppen. Coleoptera. Clavicornes. (1909) Études sur les Coléoptères (premier & deuxième fascicule) (1916–1918)

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French entomologist

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Antoine Henri Grouvelle was born on 17 January 1843.

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Antoine Henri Grouvelle died on 9 June 1917.

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Antoine Henri Grouvelle was an entomologist.

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Antoine Henri Grouvelle was French.

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· Wikipedia: Antoine Henri Grouvelle

· Wikidata: Q4775487

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