Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville

Who was Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville?

Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville was a French entomologist, born on 11 November 1775 in Paris. He died on 27 March 1858 in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre.

He was introduced to entomology by Madame de Grostête-Tigny who was fascinated, like her husband, by chemistry and insects. Through her, Audinet-Serville met Pierre André Latreille. Latreille worked with him on the Dictionnaire des Insectes de l’Encyclopédie méthodique. Then, working with Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, he finished the book Faune française in 1830.

Audinet-Serville is particularly known for his work on the Orthoptera. He published, 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 BDHL Scan.