Henri Jekel

In 1849 he wrote a revision of the work Genera et species Curculionidarum by the Swedish entomologist Carl Johan Schönherr.

[1] In the following years he wrote a large number of specialist articles for various journals of entomological societies, including the first description of the giraffe neck beetle from Madagascar in 1860.

These include genera and species from the beetle families Anthribidae, Attelabidae, Curculionidae and Geotrupidae.

[2] Genera described are Lasiorhynchites, Conothorax, Chelotrupes, Balanobius, Donus, Eudmetus, Elytroxys and Entomops.

[2] In 1855 he published the first part of Insecta Saundersiana or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders[3] and in 1860 the second part appeared under the title Insecta Saundersiana: Or, Characters of Undescribed Insects in the Collection of William Wilson Saunders, FRS, FLS Coleoptera - Curculionides[3] both volumes being based on the collections of British entomologist William Wilson Saunders.