'', an illustration from Guérin's
Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844. He described the species in 1832. Guérin-Méneville changed his
surname from Guérin in 1836. He was the author of the illustrated work
Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844, a complement to the work of the zoologists
Georges Cuvier and
Pierre André Latreille,
Le Règne Animal, which illustrated only a selection of the animals covered. He also introduced
silkworms to France, so they could be bred for the production of silk. Guérin-Méneville founded several journals:
Magasin de zoologie, d’anatomie comparée et de paléontologie (1830),
Revue zoologique par la Société cuviérienne (1838),
Revue et Magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée (1849), and
Revue de sériciculture (1863). He was editor of
Dictionnaire Pittoresque d’Histoire Naturelle, published in Paris 1836–1839. Guérin-Méneville was elected president of the
Société Entomologique de France for the year 1846. ==Legacy==