Gaspard Auguste Brullé

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Gaspard Auguste Brullé (7 April, 1809 – 21 January, 1873) was a French

entomologist
.

Passionate about insects from a young age and through the intervention of

Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
in 1829.

In 1832, he participated in the foundation of the

Arachnida
and insects.

Brullé studied for and obtained a

Comparative Anatomy at the University of Dijon
.

He proposed a new

Francis de Laporte de Castelnau and parts of Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères with Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau
.

Étienne Mulsant named the ladybird beetle species Scymnus brullei in his honor

See also

References

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  • Jaussaud P. & Brygoo E.R. (2004). Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies. Muséum national d’histoire naturelle de Paris, 630 pp.
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  • Mulsant, M.E. (1850). Species des coléoptères trimères sécuripalpes. Ann. Sci. Phys. Nat. Lyon 2:984