Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville

Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville (his name, before the Revolution, included a particle: Audinet de Serville) was a French entomologist, born on November 11, 1775 in Paris. He died on March 27 , 1858 in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre.

He was initiated, says one, by Madam de Grostête-Tigny who was impassioned, like her husband, by chemistry and insects. Audinet-Serville met, thanks to her, Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833). Latreille collaborated with him in the Dictionnaire des Insectes de l’Encyclopédie méthodique . Then, working with Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756-1814), he finished the book Faune française in 1830.

Audinet-Serville is particularly famous for his work on the Orthoptera. He published, in particular, Revue méthodique de l’ordre des Orthoptères which appeared in Annales des sciences naturelles in 1831. Then, in 1839, in the series of works entitled les Suites à Buffon, , a volume on the same order, Histoire naturelle des Insectes Orthoptères.

He was a friend of Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot and wrote with him Histoire naturelle des insectes Hemipteres. Paris, Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret: 1-675 (1843) BDHL Scan[1].

Translation from French Wikipedia