Hercule Nicolet

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Hercule Nicolet (18 January 1801 - 16 September 1872) was a Swiss lithographer and entomologist who specialized in Thysanura and Collembola.

Hercule Nicolet was the son of Bénédict-Alphonse Nicolet (1743-1807).He was the business partner of Jean Coulin (1822-1883) in lithographic firm of Hercule "Nicolet and Coulin fils", pressing the plates for Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel co-edited by Louis Agassiz and many other geological and natural history works. He wrote Recherches pour Servir á l'Histoire des Podurelles. Nouv. Mém. Soc. Helvet. Sci. Nat., 6, p.1-88 (1842) and Essai sur une classification des insectes aptères, de l'ordre des Thysanoures. (Séance du 25 Mars 1846) Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 2e Série, Tome V, p.335-395 (1847).

He was a Member of the Société entomologique de France.

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• Bonnet, P. 1945: Bibliographia Araneorum. Toulouse 35
• Muñoz Cuevas, A. 2006: Hercule Nicolet Bol. Soc. Ent. Aragon. , Zaragoza 36: 455-458 455-458