Gilles Terral

Gilles Terral (1943 – 12 August 1998) was a French entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera Parnassiinae and Saturniidae.^[1]

As a Parnassius specialist he made an expedition to Ladakh with Jean-Claude Weiss in July 1983. As a Saturnid specialist he wrote articles with Philippe Darge and Claude Lemaire (see below).

He was working on a book on the Saturniidae of the world, to be published by Sciences Nat, most of the colour separations of the photos were already done for the printing. His collection of Saturniidae (251 boxes) is now at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon.^[2][3]

Works

• 1991. Saturnides éthiopiens inédits, Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 70, in collaboration with J.-P. Lequeux and Ph. Darge.
• 1994. Zur Verbreitung einiger asiatischer Saturniidae, Entomologische Zeitschrift (Essen), 104 (3), pp. 58–59, in collaboration with U. and L. H. Paukstadt.

Species he described

• Gonimbrasia cocaulti, 1992 (with Philippe Darge) ^[4]
• Melanocera dargei, 1991, Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 70, p. 14.
• Melanocera widenti, 1991 (with Philippe Darge), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 70, p. 16.^[5]
• Periphoba attali, 1994 (with Claude Lemaire), Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F., 15 (3), p. 397.^[6][7]
• Ubaena lequeuxi, 1988 (with Philippe Darge).
• Ubaena periculosa, 1988 (with Philippe Darge).^[8]

Species named after him

• Bunaeopsis terrali Darge, 1993.^[9]
• Coprophanaeus terrali Arnaud, Besoiro, 7, p. 2.^[10][11]

References

1. "Base of entomologists specialists on Saturniidae". Retrieved 16 October 2014.
2. Cahiers scientifiques. Centre de conservation et d'étude des collections, Musée des confluences, Lyon, fascicule 12 (2007), p. 28
3. "Muséum de Lyon. Collections nominales - Entomologie". Retrieved 16 October 2014.
4. R. Vinciguerra, 2009. Considerazioni sulle specie del genere Gonimbrasa Butler, 1878 e descrizione di Gonimbrasia desena Vinciguerra, sp. n., nuova specie dello Zambia (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), Shilap, 145, p. 62
5. Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat: complete list of works published
6. Stefan Naumann, 2004. Nekrolog. Zum Tode von Claude Lemaire, Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F., 25 (1/2), p. 59
7. L. & T. Racheli, 2005. Un update checklist of the Saturniidae of Ecuador. Part 1: Hemileucinae (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), Shilap, 130, p. 220
8. "Global Names Index". Retrieved 16 October 2014.
9. Philippe Darge, 1993. Nouveaux Bunaeopsis du Congo : description et notes écologiques (Saturniidae), Lambillionea, 93,2
10. Besoiro: List of the taxa described in the 18 fascicules published
11. "W. D. Edmonds & J. Zidek, 201. A taxonomic review of the neotropical genus Coprophanaeus Olsoufieff, 1924 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae), Insecta Mundi, 0129, pp. 1-111". Retrieved 16 October 2014.