Henri de Peyerimhoff

Henri de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle full name Marie Antoine Hercule Henri de Peyerimhoff (27 July 1838 – 9 April 1877) was a magistrate and entomologist from Alsace, France. He is known for his work with smaller moths.

Life

Henri de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle was born on 27 July 1838 in Colmar, Alsace. His parents were Jean-Baptiste Hercule de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle (1809–1890), mayor of Colmar, and Marie-Rose Béchelé. His father's family originated in 14th-century Alsace near the borders with Bavaria and Baden. The Catholic branch associated with Switzerland assumed the name "Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle" in the late 18th century. His father was head of the Colmar municipal council and did much to modernise the city. Henri de Peyerimhoff became a magistrate and was also an entomologist who specialized in microlepidoptera (smaller moths).

Peyerimhoff married Marie George on 15 November 1870 in Strasbourg. She was from the Bellaigues, a solid bourgeoisie de robe in Nancy. When Alsace became part of Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Peyerimhoff chose to remain French and became judge of the civil court of Moulins in 1873, and then of Perpignan. His father remained in Colmar and became a deputy in the Landesausschuss, the state legislature. Peyerimhoff suffered from poor health. He died on 9 April 1877 in Perpignan at the age of 38.

Peyerimhoff left two sons, Henri de Peyerimhoff (1871–1953), who became a civil servant and businessman, and Paul de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle (1873–1957), who joined the Forestry service and became an entomologist. In his obituary of Peyerimhoff the Abbé Umhang wrote, "I have known more than one young man who has been passionate about a branch of natural history, and I have not seen any of them depart from the path of virtue and honor." The preliminary results of his extensive studies of the Tortricidae of moths were published in the Annales de la Société Entomologique de France in 1876, but were incomplete at the time of his death.

Publications

Publications by Henri de Peyerimhoff included:

Species named by Peyerimhoff

Name Family Year Synonym of Notes Aethes deaurana Tortricidae 1877 Also named Cochylis deaurana by Peyerimhoff in 1877 Argyresthia chrysidella Yponomeutidae 1877 Aristotelia lucentella Gelechiidae 1871 Eulamprotes unicolorella Commonly called "unmarked neb" Chauliodus daucellus Epermeniidae 1870 Epermenia aequidentellus Cochylis millierana Tortricidae 1877 Cochylis salebrana Cochylis rubricana Tortricidae 1877 Gynnidomorpha rubricana Crinopteryx familiella Incurvariidae 1871 Sole species in the genus Crinopteryx and subfamily Crinopteryginae Ephippiphora rectana Tortricidae 1863 Epinotia brunnichana Epinotia pusillana Tortricidae 1863 Eucosma mirificana Tortricidae 1877 Gelechia horticolla Gelechiidae 1871 Caryocolum proxima Gelechia squamulella Gelechiidae 1871 Xenolechia aethiops Also named Teleiodes squamulella by Peyerimhoff in 1871 Gelechia superfetella Gelechiidae 1877 Athrips rancidella Commonly called "cotoneaster webworm" Grapholitha pflugiana var. alsaticana Tortricidae 1872 Epiblema scutulana Gynnidomorpha rubricana Tortricidae 1877 Lithocolletis cerisolella Gracillariidae 1872 Phyllonorycter cerisolella Mecyna auralis Crambidae 1872 Also named Botys auralis by Peyerimhoff in 1872 Mimaesoptilus arvernicus Pterophoridae 1875 Stenoptilia lutescens Nemophora pseudopilella Adelidae 1877 Nematopogon adansoniella Nemophora reaumurella Adelidae 1870 Nematopogon swammerdamella Nepticula ilicivora Nepticulidae 1871 Stigmella suberivora Orthotaenia obesana Tortricidae 1863 Endothenia quadrimaculana Pammene giganteana Tortricidae 1863 Parafomoria cistivora Nepticulidae 1871 Also named Nepticula cistivora by Peyerimhoff in 1871 Phoxopteris castaneana Tortricidae 1863 Ancylis upupana Retinia amethystana Tortricidae 1872 Gravitarmata margarotana Retinia incognatana Tortricidae 1863 Epinotia rubiginosana Scoparia gallica Crambidae 1873 Sideria violana Tortricidae 1863 Endothenia pullana Commonly called "woundwort marble" Teras cyaneana Tortricidae 1872 Acleris caucasica Teras mixtana var. provinciana Tortricidae 1872 Acleris hyemana Teras mucidana Tortricidae 1873 Acleris quercinana Tortrix culmana Tortricidae 1863 Clepsis senecionana