Achille Raffray


Achille Marie Jacques Raffray was a French diplomat, traveller, zoologist and entomologist.
He wrote:
- Entomology:
- Geography:
Achille Raffray was a member of the Société entomologique de France and the Société de Géographie. His massive collections of world beetles were sold and are conserved in many European museums.

Eponyms

, Peroryctes raffrayana, was named for him by the Parisian zoologist Henri Milne-Edwards.
A species of African snake, Scaphiophis raffreyi, was named in his honor by French herpetologist Marie Firmin Bocourt,
while a species of short-tailed snake, Brachyorrhos raffreyi from Ternate in North Maluku Province, Indonesia, was also named for Raffray, by the French herpetologist, ichthyologist and paleontologist Henri-Émile Sauvage