Léon Fairmaire, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French entomologist
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Léon Fairmaire
- Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a French entomologist. A specialist in Coleoptera he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780-1845).
- This is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
- Fairmaire wrote 450 scientific papers and other publications relating to Coleoptera (partial list of papers in Wikispecies).
- He also worked on Hemiptera.
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