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'''Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet''' (4 March 1807, [[Deinze]] –14 December 1889, Paris) was a French [[entomologist]] and insect dealer mainly interested in [[Coleoptera]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=France |first=Société entomologique de |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qW4WAAAAYAAJ |title=Annales de la Société entomologique de France |date=1890 |publisher=La Société entomologique de France |pages=429 |language=fr}}</ref> He described many new [[Genus|genera]] and [[species]].
Buquet's business dealt in exotic Coleoptera, especially [[Buprestidae]], [[Lucanidae]], [[Scarabaeidae]] and [[Cerambycidae]]. He also sold [[Lepidoptera]], especially ''[[Morpho (genus)|Morpho]]'' and ''[[Agrias]]''. The insects came mainly from the [[French colonial empires]].
He was a member of the [[Société entomologique de France]].
The beetle family Lucanidae was named after him.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_3QDwAAQBAJ |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Birds |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |last3=Grayson |first3=Michael |date=2020-03-19 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4729-8269-8 |pages=342 |language=en}}</ref> His collection was purchased by the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum in London]].<ref name=":0" />
==Works==
Partial list
*Description de onze espèces nouvelles du genre Lebia; rapportées de Cayenne par M. Leprieur. ''[[Annales de la Société Entomologique de France]]'' 3: 673-681 (1834).
*1835. Description d´un Coléoptére nouveau, du genre Goliathus (de Lamarck). ''[[Annales de la Société Entomologique de France]]'' 1835 4: 135-137 (1835).
*''[[Annales de la Société Entomologique de France]]'' 1836 5: 201-207 (1836).
*Description d'une nouvelle espéce de Buprestide du genre Polybothris. ''[[Annales de la Société Entomologique de France]]'' (3) 2: 75-76 (1854)
*1859. Mémoire sur deux genres nouveaux de coléoptèresde la famille des longicornes (Oxilus et Sthelenus), suivi de la description de plusieurs espèces appartenant aux genres Platyarthron, Oeme (Sclerocerus Dej.), Clytus, Apriona, Cerosterna et Acanthoderus. ''[[Annales de la Société Entomologique de France]]'', Paris, 7 (3): 619-636 (1859)
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