Gilles Terral
Gilles Terral was a French entomologist.
He specialised in Lepidoptera Parnassiinae and Saturniidae.
As a Parnassius specialist he made an expedition to Ladakh with Jean-Claude Weiss in July 1983.
As a Saturnid specialist he wrote articles with Philippe Darge and Claude Lemaire.
He was working on a book on the Saturniidae of the world, to be published by Sciences Nat, most of the colour separations of the photos were already done for the printing.
His collection of Saturniidae is now at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon.
Works
- 1991. Saturnides éthiopiens inédits, Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 70, in collaboration with J.-P. Lequeux and Ph. Darge.
- 1994. Zur Verbreitung einiger asiatischer Saturniidae, Entomologische Zeitschrift, 104, pp. 58–59, in collaboration with U. and L. H. Paukstadt.