Maurice Pic

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Maurice Pic (23 March 1866, Marrigny near Digoin - 29 December 1957 , Les Guerreaux [1]) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He contributed to Mary-Louis Fauconnet's Catalogue raisonné des coléoptères de Saône-et-Loire (Le Creusot, Martet, 1887) and wrote many short papers, many in L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne describing world beetles. His most important work was for Sigmund Schenkling's still very relevant Coleopterorum Catalogus

Pic's collection is in Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.

[edit] Works

Excluding short papers.

  • 1902. Coleoptera Heteromera Fam. Hylophilidae. P. Wytsman (ed.), Genera Insectorum. Fascicule 8. P. Wytsman, Brussels, 14 pp., 1 pl.
  • Parts 14. Hylophilidae (1911);26 Scraptiidae, Pedilidae (1911); 36 Anthicidae (1911) 41 Ptinidae (1912); 48 Anobiidae (1912); 55 Bruchidae (1913); 58 Dascillidae, Helodidae, Eucinetidae (1914); 81 Rhipiceridae (1925); 87 Phloeophilidae, Rhadalidae, Prionoceridae (1926); 94 Phengodidae, Karumiidae (1927); 103 Dasytidae: Melyrinae (1929); 155 Dasytidae: Dasytinae (1937) of Schenkling S. (ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin.

[edit] References

  • Constantin, R. 1992 Memorial des Coléopteristes Français.Bull. liaison Assoc. Col. reg. parisienne , Paris (Suppl. 14)Portrait
  • Lhoste, J. 1987 Les entomologistes français. 1750-1950. INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) , Paris.