Alexandre Acloque

Alexandre Acloque
Born	Alexandre Noël Charles Acloque 1871
Died	1941
Nationality	French
Scientific career
Fields	Lichens
Author abbrev. (botany)	Acloque

Cover of Le Monde des Plantes, number 65, 1895, which mentions Alexandre Acloque as editor-in-chief

Alexandre Noël Charles Acloque (1871–1941) was a French botanist who was an expert in lichens. Acloque was broadly interested in natural history and wrote books on the flora and fauna (insects) of France.

Selected works

Drawing from Acloque's volume on beetles in A Fauna of France

• Les Champignons (mushrooms), 1892
• Les Lichens (lichens), 1893
• Flore de France [A Flora of France], 1894
• Faune de France [A Fauna of France], 1896–1900)
  • Mammifères (mammals)
  • Oiseaux (birds)
  • Poissons, Reptiles, Batraciens, Protochordés [Fish, Reptiles, Amphibians, Protochordats], 1 vol., in-18 de 210 p., with 294 figures
  • Coléoptères (beetles), 1 vol., in-18 de 466 p., with 1052 figures
• Les insectes nuisibles [Insect Pests], 1897
• Scènes de la vie des insectes [Scenes from the Life of Insects], 1897
• Flores régionales de France [Regional Floras of France], including the French Alps, the Pyrénées, Alsace-Lorraine, the Mediterranean, western France, and Paris