[2] He was elected president of the Société entomologique de France in 1972, president of the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera in 1992, and twice as vice-president of the Lepidopterists' Society.
He received the prizes Constant (1971) and Réaumur (2003) of the Société entomologique de France.
In 1999, he received the Karl Jordan Medal of the Lepidopterists' Society.
In their necrology, Naumann, Brosch and Nässig, gave 319 taxa described by Lemaire directly or in collaboration with other authors.
[3] Ten genera are attributed to Lemaire: