page_title: Eugène Boullet
hierarchical_section_title: Eugène Boullet
caption_attribution_description: English: Eugène Boullet and Jules Paul Mabille Essai de révision de la famille des hespérides. Annales des Sciences naturelles (Zoologie) (9)7(4/6): 167 207, plate 13 Mimoniades punctiger (Mabille &amp; Boullet, 1908) synonym for Mimardaris porus porus (Plötz, 1879) Yanguna spatiosa aspilos Mabille &amp; Boullet, 1908 Yanguna parima synonym for Aspitha aspitha parima (Plötz, 1886) Granila paseas (Hewitson, 1857)var. albimacula Mabille &amp; Boullet, 1908 Jemadia le cerfi Mabille &amp; Boullet, 1908 synonym for Jemadia hewitsonii hewitsonii (Mabille, 1878)
context_page_description: Eugène Boullet full name Eugène Anatole Auguste Victor Boullet was a French naturalist, entomologist and collector.
  With Jules Paul Mabille he described many new species of Neotropical Hesperiidae.
  He also wrote Catalogue de la collection de Lépidoptères du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris. I, Famille Papilionidae in collaboration with Ferdinand Le Cerf. He was a wealthy banker in Corbie.
  The collaboration with Le Cerf an entomologist at Muséum national d'histoire naturelle began in 1905
  "Around 1905, a man who did much for the Museum and was one of its first "associates", M. E. Boullet, banker at Corbie, decided to give to our institution his collection of Lepidoptera, offering in addition to helping with its inclusion in ours. Which one to choose? There was no competition. The Hesperidae, family for which there was, in Paris, a specialist in that order Mabille.
  With the approval of M. Bouvier, we sat down to agree on a work plan. Classification, or more accurately, the establishment of the collection was taken up at the beginning, with the Papilionidae, and has continued since then as methodically as resources and materials of the service allow.
  Mr.
context_section_description: Eugène Boullet (1 July 1847, in Acheux – 1923) full name Eugène Anatole Auguste Victor Boullet was a French naturalist, entomologist and collector.
  With Jules Paul Mabille he described many new species of Neotropical Hesperiidae.
  He also wrote Catalogue de la collection de Lépidoptères du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris. I, Famille Papilionidae (1921) in collaboration with Ferdinand Le Cerf. He was a wealthy banker in Corbie.
  The collaboration with Le Cerf an entomologist at Muséum national d'histoire naturelle  began in 1905
  "Around 1905, a man who did much for the Museum and was one of its first "associates", M. E. Boullet, banker at Corbie, decided to give to our institution his collection of Lepidoptera, offering in addition to helping with its inclusion in ours. Which one to choose? There was no competition. The Hesperidae, family for which there was, in Paris, a specialist in that order Mabille.
  With the approval of M. Bouvier, we sat down to agree on a work plan. Classification, or more accurately, the establishment of the collection was taken up at the beginning, with  the Papilionidae, and has continued since then as methodically as resources and materials of the service allow.
  Mr. Boullet was paying a technician, charged exclusively with the preparation of butterflies; every month, I sent to Corbie a stock of specimens of the family being classified. These were returned me or reported on during the  two or three days that he spent each month in Paris during which time we worked together." 
  The totality of Boullet's world insect collection (25,000 Lepidoptera notably rich in specialist collections of Neotropical Hesperiidae and Papilionidae; Heliconiinae and Satyridae and containing many rare and expensive Morpho, Agrias and Ornithoptera) was given, on his death and with a sum of money for its maintenance to Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris where it is now held. The same museum holds his extensive collections of Coleoptera Diptera and Hymenoptera.
  Boullet travelled widely in Europe and north Africa taking stereo-photographs of archaeological sites. In Corbie he maintained an orchidarium containing 4,000 species, cultivars and hybrids and a glasshouse for Nymphaeaceae including especially Victoria lilies. He also a had a large and noted stamp collection (39,000 items).
  Eugène Boullet was a Member of  Société entomologique de France.
caption: Plate from Essai de révision de la famille des hespérides 1908
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