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Émile Louis Ragonot (12 October 1843 – 13 October 1895) was a French entomologist. In 1885, he became president of the Société entomologique de France.

He named 301 new genera of butterflies and moths, mostly pyralid moths.

He is also the author of several books:

• Diagnoses of North American Phycitidae and Galleriidae (1887) published in Paris
• (in French) Nouveaux genres et espèces de Phycitidae & Galleriidae (1888)
• (in French) Essai sur une classification des Pyralites (1891-1892)
• (in French) Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae. pp. 1–602 In N.M. Romanoff. Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères. Tome VIII. N.M. Romanoff, Saint-Petersbourg. xli + 602 pp. (1901)

Ragonot's collection can be found in the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France.

Notes

1. "Émile-Louis Ragonot (1843-1895)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved October 15, 2023.
2. "Butterflies and Moths of the World". February 17, 2023. doi:10.5519/s93616qw. Retrieved October 15, 2023 – via data.nhm.ac.uk.

References

• Luquet, G. C. 2001: - Alexanor 21 1999(4) Portrait

External links

Media related to Émile Louis Ragonot at Wikimedia Commons

• (in French) Ragonot , 1890. Essai sur la classification des Pyralites. - Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 10: 435-546

• 1843 births
• 1895 deaths
• French lepidopterists
• Presidents of the Société entomologique de France
• 19th-century French zoologists