- Émile Louis Ragonot
Emile Louis Ragonot (12 October 1843 ,
Paris - 13 October 1895, Paris) was a Frenchentomologist . In 1885 he became president of the "Société entomologique de France ".He named 301 new genera of butterflies and moths, mostly pyralid moths. [ [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList2.dsml?AUTHOR=Ragonot&searchPageURL=BrowseAuthors.dsml Natural History Museum, London] ]
He is also the author of several books:
* Diagnoses of North American Phycitidae and Galleriidae (1887) published inParis
* Nouveaux genres et espèces de Phycitidae & Galleriidae (1888)
* Essai sur une classification des Pyralites (1891-1892)
* Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae. pp. 1-602 In N.M. Romanoff. "Mémoires sur les Lepidoptéres". Tome VIII. N.M. Romanoff, Saint-Petersbourg. xli + 602 pp. (1901)Ragonot's collection can be found in the
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle , Paris, France.Notes
References
* Luquet, G. C. 2001: [Ragonot, E. L.] - Alexanor 21 1999(4) Portrait
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