LF
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French entomologist
A.K.A.
Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire, Leon Fairmaire, Fairmaire
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Male
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Birth:
29 June 1820(Paris)
Death:
1 April 1906(Paris)
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Biography
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.