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Jules Léon Austaut

French entomologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ6305948 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jules Léon Austaut (1844 – 1929) was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Works

1879. Lépidoptères nouveaux d'Algérie. Petites Nouvelles entomologiques, 2, p. 293

1879-1885. Lépidoptères nouveaux d'Algérie. Le Naturaliste 7, pp. 141–142

1885. Lépidoptères nouveaux d'Algérie. Le Naturaliste 1, pp.

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“Jules Léon Austaut” enters the record as french entomologist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jules, Léon and Austaut can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1844, 1929, 1879, 1885—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1844-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jules, Léon and Austaut.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6305948. VIAF identifies the subject as 282090968. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1844, 1929, 1879 and 1885.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jules Léon Austaut” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.