Melchior de Lisle

Melchior de Lisle was a French entomologist.
He specialised in Coleoptera Lucanidae.

His life

A biography was written by Jean-Pierre Lacroix
In 1933 he marries Christiane Frommer who will hold in Paris a renowned music lounge.
He was a technician of value, an alumnus of the École polytechnique.
In Cameroon he manages works of infrastructure, on returning to Paris he is a headmaster of an engineering school. He is an excellent pianist.

Entomological works

During his stay in Cameroon, he is interested in cetonids, the customs of which he observes and he describes new forms or new subspecies.
Of return in Europe, he is fascinated by the Lucanidae. He gathers an important collection and describes numerous new taxa. His most important works are published in a Swiss zoological journal.
He also studied the Cerambycidae.

Entomological terms named after him

Bangalaia lislei Villiers, 1941Dorcus delislei Nagai & Tsukawaki, 1999Figulus delislei Benesh, 1953Goniochernes lislei Vachon, 1941Horridocalia delislei Endrödi, 1974Ixorida venera delislei Miksic, 1972Prismognathus delislei Endrödi, 1971Rosenbergia lislei Rigout, 1981Sclerostomus delislei Weinreich, 1961Smaragdesthes delislei Paulian, 1940

List of the taxa he created

The list of the 103 taxa he created, fully referenced, is published on the web.