Tags: Entomologist.
Claudius Rey (2 September 1817 Lille – 31 January 1895 Lille) was a French entomologist .Rey’s family owned a prosperous printing works which went bankrupt in 1847. Fortunately one of his uncles the owner of a vineyard producing Morgon offered him employment. Impassioned by entomology he began a collaboration with Etienne Mulsant (1797–1880) who was then working on Histoire naturelle des coléoptères de France – Natural History of the Beetles of France.
