Charles Oberthür

Charles Oberthür (14 September 1845, in Rennes – 1 June 1924) was a French entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera. He was the son of François-Charles Oberthür.

Charles Oberthür

Oberthür named 42 new genera of moths.[1]

Oberthur acquired the collections of Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799–1879), Achille Guenée (1809–1880), Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie (1819–1888), Adolphe de Graslin (1802–1882), Constant Bar (1817–1884), Emmanuel Martin (1827– 1897), Antoine Barthélemy Jean Guillemot and Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892). His immense collection, at the end of his life, contained 5 million specimens in 15,000 glass topped boxes of 50 x 39 cm. In 1916, it was the second largest private collection in world.[2]

Works

Plate from Etudes d'Entomologie Fascicle VI 1912
Oberthür's tomb
  • 1879 Catalogue raisonné des Papilionidae de la Collection de Ch. Oberthür Etudes d'Entomologie, 4: 20–117.
  • Études de lépidoptérologie comparée, impr. Oberthür, In-8° et in-4°, nombreuses planches
  • Étude sur une collection de lépidoptères formée sur la côte de Malabar et à Ceylan par M. Émile Deschamps, 1889–1890, Paris, Société zoologique de France, 1892, In-8°, 16 p.
  • Supplément du Bulletin de la Société scientifique et médicale de l'Ouest
  • Faune des Lepidopteres de la Barbarie. Etudes de Lepidopterologie comparee, part 10, p. 1-459. Rennes, 1914. text online plates online.
  • Faune entomologique armoricaine. Lépidoptères (premier fascicule). Rhopalocères, avec Constant Houlbert, impr. Oberthur, 1912. In-8°, 260 p. réimprimé en 1922.
  • Considérations sur la faune lépidoptérologique d’Alsace et sur les travaux et les collections des entomologistes alsaciens depuis le XVIIIe siècle., impr. Oberthür, 1920, In-8°, 30 p.
  • Considérations sur la première question dont l'examen est proposé au congrès international de zoologie de Paris (5–10 août 1889) : "Des Règles à adopter pour la nomenclature des êtres organisés, de l'adoption d'une langue scientifique internationale", impr. Oberthür, 1889, Gr. in-8°, 7 p.
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See also

  • Walter Rothschild

Notes

  1. Butterflies & Moths of the World – Search Catalogue
  2. Chasing Butterflies for Money by J. McDunnough, in "Popular Science Monthly "number 6, vol 88, June 1916

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