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

Species he described

Gonimbrasia cocaulti, 1992 Melanocera dargei, 1991, Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 70, p. 14.Melanocera widenti, 1991, Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 70, p. 16.Periphoba attali, 1994, Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F., 15, p. 397.Ubaena lequeuxi, 1988.Ubaena periculosa, 1988.

Species named after him

Bunaeopsis terrali Darge, 1993.Coprophanaeus terrali Arnaud, Besoiro, 7, p. 2.