Henri de Peyerimhoff (entomologist)


Henri de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle full name Marie Antoine Hercule Henri de Peyerimhoff was a magistrate and entomologist from Alsace, France. He is known for his work with smaller moths.

Life

Henri de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle was born on 27 July 1838 in Colmar, Alsace.
His parents were Jean-Baptiste Hercule de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle, mayor of Colmar, and Marie-Rose Béchelé.
His father's family originated in 14th-century Alsace near the borders with Bavaria and Baden.
The Catholic branch associated with Switzerland assumed the name "Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle" in the late 18th century.
His father was head of the Colmar municipal council and did much to modernise the city.
Henri de Peyerimhoff became a magistrate and was also an entomologist who specialized in microlepidoptera.
Peyerimhoff married Marie George on 15 November 1870 in Strasbourg.
She was from the Bellaigues, a solid bourgeoisie de robe in Nancy.
When Alsace became part of Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Peyerimhoff chose to remain French and became judge of the civil court of Moulins in 1873, and then of Perpignan.
His father remained in Colmar and became a deputy in the Landesausschuss, the state legislature.
Peyerimhoff suffered from poor health.
He died on 9 April 1877 in Perpignan at the age of 38.
Peyerimhoff left two sons, Henri de Peyerimhoff, who became a civil servant and businessman, and Paul de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle, who joined the Forestry service and became an entomologist.
In his obituary of Peyerimhoff the Abbé Umhang wrote, "I have known more than one young man who has been passionate about a branch of natural history, and I have not seen any of them depart from the path of virtue and honor."
The preliminary results of his extensive studies of the Tortricidae of moths were published in the Annales de la Société Entomologique de France in 1876, but were incomplete at the time of his death.

Publications

Publications by Henri de Peyerimhoff included:

Species named by Peyerimhoff

NameFamilyYearSynonym ofNotes
Aethes deauranaTortricidae1877Also named Cochylis deaurana by Peyerimhoff in 1877
Argyresthia chrysidellaYponomeutidae1877
Aristotelia lucentellaGelechiidae1871Eulamprotes unicolorellaCommonly called "unmarked neb"
Chauliodus daucellusEpermeniidae1870Epermenia aequidentellus
Cochylis millieranaTortricidae1877Cochylis salebrana
Cochylis rubricanaTortricidae1877Gynnidomorpha rubricana
Crinopteryx familiellaIncurvariidae1871Sole species in the genus Crinopteryx and subfamily Crinopteryginae
Ephippiphora rectanaTortricidae1863Epinotia brunnichana
Epinotia pusillanaTortricidae1863
Eucosma mirificanaTortricidae1877
Gelechia horticollaGelechiidae1871Caryocolum proxima
Gelechia squamulellaGelechiidae1871Xenolechia aethiopsAlso named Teleiodes squamulella by Peyerimhoff in 1871
Gelechia superfetellaGelechiidae1877Athrips rancidellaCommonly called "cotoneaster webworm"
Grapholitha pflugiana var. alsaticanaTortricidae1872Epiblema scutulana
Gynnidomorpha rubricanaTortricidae1877
Lithocolletis cerisolellaGracillariidae1872Phyllonorycter cerisolella
Mecyna auralisCrambidae1872Also named Botys auralis by Peyerimhoff in 1872
Mimaesoptilus arvernicusPterophoridae1875Stenoptilia lutescens
Nemophora pseudopilellaAdelidae1877Nematopogon adansoniella
Nemophora reaumurellaAdelidae1870Nematopogon swammerdamella
Nepticula ilicivoraNepticulidae1871Stigmella suberivora
Orthotaenia obesanaTortricidae1863Endothenia quadrimaculana
Pammene giganteanaTortricidae1863
Parafomoria cistivoraNepticulidae1871Also named Nepticula cistivora by Peyerimhoff in 1871
Phoxopteris castaneanaTortricidae1863Ancylis upupana
Retinia amethystanaTortricidae1872Gravitarmata margarotana
Retinia incognatanaTortricidae1863Epinotia rubiginosana
Scoparia gallicaCrambidae1873
Sideria violanaTortricidae1863Endothenia pullanaCommonly called "woundwort marble"
Teras cyaneanaTortricidae1872Acleris caucasica
Teras mixtana var. provincianaTortricidae1872Acleris hyemana
Teras mucidanaTortricidae1873Acleris quercinana
Tortrix culmanaTortricidae1863Clepsis senecionana