Louis Marie Alphonse Depuiset

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Louis Marie Alphonse Depuiset (20 September 1822 Autuy, Ardennes - 17 March 1886 Paris) was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

He was, from 1850, an insect dealer in Paris and a close friend of Jean Baptiste Boisduval.

He wrote Catalogue méthodique des Lépidoptères d'Europe (1861) and Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Lépidoptère du g. Papilio, provenant de la Nouvelle-Guinée (1878)

In 1867 he published Genera des lẻpidoptềres. Histoire naturelle des papillons d'Europe et leurs chenilles, within a book by M. Sand & G. Sand: Le monde des papillons. Promenade ầ travers champs. J. Rothschild Paris, pp.1-153. pl.50.

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