Eugène Séguy
Encyclopedia
Eugène Séguy was a French
entomologist who specialised in Diptera
. He held a chair of entomology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
in Paris from 1956 -1960.
Portraits http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/dipterists/images/seguy.jpg and http://www.sciaridae.de/Bilder/Seguy.jpg Number 7, bottom row.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
entomologist who specialised in Diptera
Diptera
Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...
. He held a chair of entomology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...
in Paris from 1956 -1960.
Portraits http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/dipterists/images/seguy.jpg and http://www.sciaridae.de/Bilder/Seguy.jpg Number 7, bottom row.
Works
- Diptera: recueil d'etudes biologiques et systematiques sur les Dipteres du Globe (Collection of biological and systematic studies on Diptera of the World). 11 vols. Text figs. Part of Encyclopedie Entomologique, Serie B II: Diptera. (1924-1953).
- Faune de France. Diptères: PtychopteridaePtychopteridaePtychopteridae, the phantom crane flies, is a small family of nematocerous Diptera. Superficially similar in appearance to other "tipuloid" families, they lack the ocelli of Trichoceridae, the 5-branched radial vein of Tanyderidae, and the two anal veins that reach the wing margin of Tipulidae...
à PhlebotominaePhlebotominaeMembers of the subfamily Phlebotominae are known outside of the United States by the name sand fly. This subfamily includes numerous genera of blood-feeding flies, including the primary vectors of leishmaniasis, bartonellosis and pappataci fever...
109 p.,179 figs ( 1925) - Faune de France. Diptères Brachycères.StratiomyidaeStratiomyidaeThe soldier flies , are a family of flies . The family contains about 1,500 species in about 400 genera worldwide. Adults are found near larval habitats...
to Omphralidae 308 p.,685 figs (1926) - Faune de France. Diptères Brachycères.AsilidaeAsilidaeInsects in the Diptera family Asilidae are commonly called robber flies. The family Asilidae contains about 7,100 described species worldwide....
308 p.,685 figs 190 p.,384 figs (1927) - Spedizione scientifica all'oasi di Cufra [Marzo-Luglio 1931]. Insectes diptères. Ann. Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova 55[1930-1931]: 490-511, figures 1-3 (1932).
- Contributions à l'étude de la faune du Mozambique. Voyage de M.M. Lesne [1928-1929] 13e note. Diptères [2e partie]. Mems. Estud. Mus. zool. Univ. Coimbra 67: 5-80 (1933).
- Étude sur quelques Muscides de l'Amérique Latine. Rev. Soc. ent. Argent. 6: 9-16, 3 figures (1934).
- Séguy, E. Diptera L. Nematocera et Brachycera. Mission Scientifique de l'Omo; Vol. 4 [Zoologie]; Ed.: Jeannel. Mus. Natn. Hist. nat. 8: 319-380 (1938).
- Séguy, E., 1938 La Vie des Muches et des Moustiques Delagrave
- Faune de France. Insectes Ectoparasites 684 p.,957 fig (1944)
- La Biologie des Dipteres. pp. 609. 7 col + 3 b/w plates, 225 text figs.(1950)
- Dictionnaire des termes d’entomologie. Editions P. Lechevalier, Paris (FR)(1967)
External Links
- Les mouches, Planches d'Eugène Séguy Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Neuchâtel