Jean Marie Leon Dufour ( French: Léon Jean Marie Dufour , April 11, 1780 - April 18, 1865 , Saint-North ), French entomologist .
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Dufour " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Dufour " . |
Was first a doctor. Dufour gained fame with numerous studies on the anatomy of spiders and insects , as well as on the transformations of the latter; he discovered gregarin and made it public in 1811 - 1861 . numerous articles in the Annales des sciences naturelles and Annales de la Société Entomologique de France ; he published, among other things, Recherches sur les hemipteres (P., 1833 ).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
Literature
- Dufour, Jean-Marie-Leon // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.