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Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-RhĂ´ne-Alpes, France
About Claudius Rey
- Claudius Rey (2 September 1817, in Lille – 31 January 1895, in Lille) was a French entomologist . Rey’s family owned a prosperous printing works which went bankrupt in 1847.
- One of his uncles, the owner of a vineyard producing Morgon, offered him employment.
- Impassioned by entomology, he began a collaboration with Etienne Mulsant (1797–1880) who was then working on Histoire naturelle des coléoptères de France - Natural History of the Beetles of France.
- In 1852, Rey settled in Lyon, in the residence of his brother in Saint-Genis-Laval.
- He took his Winter holidays in the South of France seeking insects.
- His work with Mulsant lasted until Mulsant’s death.
- The majority of the texts on Staphylinidae are the work of the two entomologists but five parts (Habrocerinae, Tachyporinae, Trichophyinae, Picropeplinae and Steninae) are the work of Rey alone.
- The Coleoptera are not the only study of Mulsant and Rey since they also worked on naturelle des punaises de France -the Natural history of the True Bugs of France.
- In addition to these publications, Claudius Rey wrote many articles on Coleoptera in journals .
- He described 8 genera and 48 species.
- 116 genera and 407 species bear his name alongside that of Mulsant.
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