Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin
Male, Deceased Person
1797 – 1873
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Who was Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin?
Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.
In 1847/48 he collected for Charles Oberthur and Jean Baptiste Boisduval in Andalusia and Algeria, between 1849 and 1858 in California and Oregon, from 1859-1860 in China and the Philippines and from 1860 -1865 in Celebes, Moluccas, Aru and New Guinea. Finally from 1866- 69 he collected in Colombia and again in California. He is honoured in the butterfly names Lorquin's Admiral and Papilio lorquinianus
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