Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais

Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais (10 February 1843 Paris – 22 December 1918 Conflans-sur-Oise) was a French entomologist and zoologist.

He preferred, in 1864, to follow less theoretical courses at Collège de France, at Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and at the Sorbonne.

He became one of the first teachers at the l'Institut national d'agronomie founded in 1876 leaving to study grasshoppers in Argentina for several years around 1885.

In 1891 it was widely, but erroneously, reported that Künckel d'Herculais had been killed and eaten by a swarm of locusts in Algeria.

[1][2] He was elected president of the Société entomologique de France in the years 1908[clarification needed] and 1909.