Claude Lemaire

Claude Lemaire (21 February 1921 – 5 February 2004) was a French entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera Saturniidae.

Claude Lemaire published a hundred of entomological works

He is elected president of the Société entomologique de France in 1972, president of the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera in 1992 and two times vice-president of the Lepidopterist's Society.

He receives the prizes Constant (1971) and Réaumur (2003) of the Société entomologique de France. In 1999 he receives the medal Karl Jordan of the Lepidopterist's Society.

In their necrology, Naumann, Brosch & Nässig, give 319 taxa described by him directly or in collaboration with other authors

10 genera are attributed to Claude Lemaire :

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