# Henri de Peyerimhoff (entomologist)

Henri de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle full name Marie Antoine Hercule Henri de Peyerimhoff (27 July 1838 – 9 April 1877) 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 (1809–1890), 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 (smaller moths).
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 (1871–1953), who became a civil servant and businessman, and Paul de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle (1873–1957), 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:
* Peyerimhoff, Henri de (1859), De domicilio. -Du domicile. - De l'acceptation par intervention de la lettre de change (Th. licence : Droit), Strasbourg{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Peyerimhoff, Henri de (1862), Catalogue des lépidoptères d'Alsace, avec indication des localités, de l'époque d'apparition et de quelques détails propres à en faciliter la recherche (in French), Colmar: Impr. et lithog. de C. Decker

## Species named by Peyerimhoff

| Name | Family | Year | Synonym of | Notes |
| Aethes deaurana | Tortricidae | 1877 | | Also named Cochylis deaurana by Peyerimhoff in 1877 |
| Argyresthia chrysidella | Yponomeutidae | 1877 | | |
| Aristotelia lucentella | Gelechiidae | 1871 | Eulamprotes unicolorella | Commonly called "unmarked neb" |
| Chauliodus daucellus | Epermeniidae | 1870 | Epermenia aequidentellus | |
| Cochylis millierana | Tortricidae | 1877 | Cochylis salebrana | |
| Cochylis rubricana | Tortricidae | 1877 | Gynnidomorpha rubricana | |
| Crinopteryx familiella | Incurvariidae | 1871 | | Sole species in the genus Crinopteryx and subfamily Crinopteryginae |
| Ephippiphora rectana | Tortricidae | 1863 | Epinotia brunnichana | |
| Epinotia pusillana | Tortricidae | 1863 | | |
| Eucosma mirificana | Tortricidae | 1877 | | |
| Gelechia horticolla | Gelechiidae | 1871 | Caryocolum proxima | |
| Gelechia squamulella | Gelechiidae | 1871 | Xenolechia aethiops | Also named Teleiodes squamulella by Peyerimhoff in 1871 |
| Gelechia superfetella | Gelechiidae | 1877 | Athrips rancidella | Commonly called "cotoneaster webworm" |
| Grapholitha pflugiana var. alsaticana | Tortricidae | 1872 | Epiblema scutulana | |
| Gynnidomorpha rubricana | Tortricidae | 1877 | | |
| Lithocolletis cerisolella | Gracillariidae | 1872 | Phyllonorycter cerisolella | |
| Mecyna auralis | Crambidae | 1872 | | Also named Botys auralis by Peyerimhoff in 1872 |
| Mimaesoptilus arvernicus | Pterophoridae | 1875 | Stenoptilia lutescens | |
| Nemophora pseudopilella | Adelidae | 1877 | Nematopogon adansoniella | |
| Nemophora reaumurella | Adelidae | 1870 | Nematopogon swammerdamella | |
| Nepticula ilicivora | Nepticulidae | 1871 | Stigmella suberivora | |
| Orthotaenia obesana | Tortricidae | 1863 | Endothenia quadrimaculana | |
| Pammene giganteana | Tortricidae | 1863 | | |
| Parafomoria cistivora | Nepticulidae | 1871 | | Also named Nepticula cistivora by Peyerimhoff in 1871 |
| Phoxopteris castaneana | Tortricidae | 1863 | Ancylis upupana | |
| Retinia amethystana | Tortricidae | 1872 | Gravitarmata margarotana | |
| Retinia incognatana | Tortricidae | 1863 | Epinotia rubiginosana | |
| Scoparia gallica | Crambidae | 1873 | | |
| Sideria violana | Tortricidae | 1863 | Endothenia pullana | Commonly called "woundwort marble" |
| Teras cyaneana | Tortricidae | 1872 | Acleris caucasica | |
| Teras mixtana var. provinciana | Tortricidae | 1872 | Acleris hyemana | |
| Teras mucidana | Tortricidae | 1873 | Acleris quercinana | |
| Tortrix culmana | Tortricidae | 1863 | Clepsis senecionana | |