Abbé Octave Parent (15 June 1882, in Trescault – 9 February 1942, in Ambleteuse) was a French entomologist who specialized in Diptera, mostly the family Dolichopodidae.[1] He became director of the Biological Station, Ambleteuse.[2]
He published three papers, dated 1934, 1937 and 1940, concerning twenty-six new species of Hawaiian Campsicnemus. The type specimens of all the species described in the 1937 paper were deposited in the collection of the Hawaiian Entomological Society.[3] The species Sigmatineurum parenti, found in Hawaii, is named in memory of Parent, "in honor of his foundational work with Hawaiian dolichopodids and for describing the genus Sigmatineurum".[4]
Publications edit
Parent published numerous works from 1913 onwards,[2] including:
- Parent, O. (1928). Etude sur les diptères dolichopodides exotiques conservès au Zoologisches Staatsinstitut und Zoologisches Museum de Hambourg. Zoologisches Staatsinstitut u. Zoolog. Museum.
- Parent, O. (1928). Contribution à la faune diptérologique de l'Espagne. Museo.
- Parent, O. (1931). Diptères Dolichopodides de l'Amérique du Sud: espèces nouvelles figurant dans la collection Schnuse conservée aux Staatliche museen für tierkunde und völkerkunde zu Dresden (Vol. 18). BG Teubner.
- Parent, O. (1932). Etude sur les types de Bigot (Dipteres, Dolichopodides). In Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles ser. B (Vol. 52, No. pt 1, pp. 215–231).
- Parent, O. (1933). Nouvelle étude sur les Diptères Dolichopodides de la région Australienne.
- Parent, O. (1933). Étude monographique sur les diptères dolichopodides de Nouvelle-Zélande.
- Parent, O., & Parent, O. (1938). Diptères dolichopodidae. Lechevalier. Éditions Faune de France 35. 720 p., 1.002 fig. Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf
References edit
- ^ Schubert, Editha. "Biographies of the Entomologists of the World". Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Aus der entomologischen Welt" (PDF). Arb. Morphol. Taxon. Ent. Berlin-Dahlem. 9 (2): 134. 1942. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ^ Neal L. Evenhuis (2007). "Lectotype designations for Hawaiian Campsicnemus Haliday (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2006. 95: 17–37.
- ^ Neal L. Evenhuis (1997). "The genus Sigmatineurum Parent in Hawaii (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a revised key to species" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996. 48: 69. Retrieved 30 August 2016.