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3 unusual facts about Étienne Mulsant


Étienne Mulsant

With Jean Baptist Édouard Verreaux (1810–1868), he wrote Histoire naturelle des punaises de France, (Natural History of the bugs of France) between 1865 to 1879.

In 1840, he published Histoire naturelle des Coléoptères de France, (Natural History of the Coleoptera of France) with various other entomologists : Antoine Casimir Marguerite Eugène Foudras (1783–1859) and Claudius Rey (1817–1895), his former pupil.

Francisque Guillebeau

In Lyon, he had as influences; entomologists Antoine Foudras and Étienne Mulsant, with whom he published several papers on Coleoptera.


Cryptolaemus montrouzieri

Étienne Mulsant described C. montrouzieri, naming the new species after a Marist brother and missionary, Abbe Montrouzier, who wrote an "Insect Fauna of Woodlark Island".


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