French entomologist, botanist and arachnologist (1780–1865).
Léon Jean Marie (or Jean-Marie Léon) Dufour (10 April 1780, Saint-Sever – 18 April 1865) was a French medical doctor and naturalist. Between 1799 and 1806 he studied medicine in Paris then returned to Saint-Sever in the Landes. He participated as an army doctor in the Peninsular War and returned to his birthplace at the end of the war. In 1854, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Dufour’s gland, an abdominal gland found in the females of nearly all members of the suborder Apocrita, is named after him. During his life he published 232 articles on arthropods
Abbreviations: Dufour
Occupations: physician, lichenologist, entomologist, botanist, naturalist, arachnologist
Citizenships: France
Languages: French
Dates: 1780-04-10T00:00:00Z – 1865-04-18T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Saint-Sever
Direct attributions: 16 plants, 6 fungi
Authorship mentions: 34 plants, 26 fungi