Paul Mabille Explained

Paul Mabille (1835 – 6 April 1923) was a French naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera and botany.

Mabille was born in 1835 in Tours, France. He was a member and President (1876–1877)[1] of the Société entomologique de France and a member of the Société entomologique de Belgique. His Madagascar collections, once in the Charles Oberthur collection, are now in the Natural History Museum, London.

He wrote many papers on Neotropical Hesperiidae with Eugène Boullet. From 1865 to 1868 he edited the exsiccata Herbarium Corsicum.[2] Mabille died in April 1923 in Perreux, Loire.

Works

partial listWikispecies (see below) provides another list and links to digitised papers by Mabille

See African Butterfly database for Mabille publications on butterflies of Africa

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bulletin des séances de la Société entomologique de France. Société entomologique de France. 24 April 1873. [Paris] : Société entomologique de France. 24 April 2018. Internet Archive. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160804020626/https://archive.org/details/bulletindess118731876soci. 4 August 2016.
  2. Web site: Herbarium Corsicum: IndExs ExsiccataID=167498880 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 19 August 2024.
  3. Web site: Borbo. ftp.funet.fi. 24 April 2018. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160821000621/http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/borbo/. 21 August 2016.
  4. Web site: Species Borbo impar (Mabille, 1883) . AFD . 2023-01-14 . en.