Claude Lemaire

Claude Lemaire (21 Février 1921-5 Février 2004) was a French entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera Saturniidae.^[1]

Studies

• Graduate Diploma of Civil Law, Faculty of Law of Paris
• Graduate Diploma of Political Economy, Faculty of Law of Paris
• Doctorate in Law
• Doctorate of the University of Paris (Sciences)

Professional activities

• 1949-1956 : Bank. Chief of contentious department
• 1957-1959 : Auctioneer at Drouot (Paris)

Entomological activities

Publications

Claude Lemaire published a hundred of entomological works^[2]

Récompenses

He is elected president of the Société entomologique de France in 1972, president of the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera in 1992 and two times vice-president of the Lepidopterist's Society.

He receives the prizes Constant (1971) and Réaumur (2003) of the Société entomologique de France. In 1999 he receives the medal Karl Jordan of the Lepidopterist's Society.

Genus and Species he described

In their necrology, Naumann, Brosch & Nässig, give 319 taxa described by him directly or in collaboration with other authors^[3]

Genres

10 genera are attributed to Claude Lemaire :

• Arias Lemaire, 1995
• Automeropsis Lemaire, 1969
• Citheronioides Lemaire, 1988
• Erythromeris Lemaire, 1969
• Gamelioides Lemaire, 1988
• Hyperchirioides Lemaire, 1981
• Hypermerina Lemaire, 1969
• Leucanella Lemaire, 1969
• Mielkesia Lemaire, 1988
• Pseudautomeris Lemaire, 1967

References

1. ^ base of entomologists specialists on Saturniidae
2. ^ Claude Lemaire, List of his publications
3. ^ Naumann, Brosch & Nässig, 2004, Nekrolog. Zum Tode von Claude Lemaire, Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N.F., 2, p. 55-62

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Name	Lemaire, Claude
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Date of birth	1921
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Date of death	2004
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