Achille Raffray

Who was Achille Raffray?

Achille Raffray was a French, diplomat, traveller, zoologist and entomologist.

He wrote:- Partial List

Entomology

⁕ Étude sur le Psélaphides. V. Tableux synoptiques. Notes et synonymie. Revue d'Entomologie 9: 81–172.

⁕with Bolívar and Eugéne Simon 1892. Voyage de M. E. Simon aux îles Philippines. 4e mémoire. Etude sur les arthropodes cavernicoles de l'île de Luzon.Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 61: 27-52, Pl. 1-2.

⁕ Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131–249, pl. 1

⁕1904. Genera et catalogue des Psélaphides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 73: 1–400

⁕1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. pp. 1–487, pls i–ix in Wytsman, P.. Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman.

⁕ with Antoine Henri Grouvelle Supplément à la Liste des Coléoptères de la Guadeloupe Ann. Soc. Entom. France vol. 81

Geography

⁕'Voyage en Abyssinie, a Zanzibar et au pays des Ouanika', Bulletin de la. Societe de Geographie x, No. 6

Achille Raffray was a member of the Société entomologique de France and the Société de Géographie His massive collections of world beetles were sold and are conserved in many European museums.