André Jean Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy (1 January 1799 in
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
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In the early 1970s the Château de la Folie, north of the village (halfway to Mézilles) was home ...
– 25 June 1857 in
Paris
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) was a French
physician
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and
entomologist
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specialising in the study of
Diptera
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(flies), and to some extent of the
Coleoptera
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(beetles).
Flies named
*''Brachyopa scutellaris'' 1843 - Syrphidae
*''
Calliphora vicina'' 1830 - Calliphoridae
*''Thecopohora fulvipes'' 1830 - Conopidae
*Genus ''Morellia'' and species ''Morellia aenescens'' 1830- Muscidae
*Genus ''Azelia'' and species ''Azelia nebulosa'' Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*Genus ''Hydromyia'' 1830 Sciomyzidae
*Genus ''Herina'' 1830- Ulidiidae
*Genus ''Sphenella'' 1830- Tephritidae
*Genus ''Delia'' 1830-Anthomyidae
*Genus ''
Bengalia
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'' 1830- Calliphoridae
*Genus ''
Rutilia'' 1830- Tachinidae
*Genus
''Muscina'' and species ''fungivora'' 1830- Muscidae
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Works
(Selected)
*Essai sur la tribu des culicides. ''Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris'' 3: 390-413 (1827).
*Essai sur les myodaires. ''Mém. Pres. Div. Sav. Acad. R. Sci. Inst. Fr.'' 2(2), 813 p. (1830).
*Notice sur le genre fucellie, Fucellia, R.D., et en particulier sur le Fucellia arenaria. ''Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr.'' 10: 269–72. (1842).
*Myodaires des environs de Paris
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''Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr''. (2) 6: 429–77. (1849).This paper forms part of a series, though the first part had the title "Études sur les myodaires des environs de Paris." The parts are as follows: Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. (2) 2: 5-38 (1844); (2) 4: 17-38 (1846); (2) 5: 255-87 (1847); (2) 6: 429-77 (1849); (2) 8: 183-209 (1850); (2) 9: 177–90, 305-21 (1851).
*Mémoire of M. Léon Dufour donne la description de la larve et des moeurs d'une muscide, larve qui vit du sang de petites hirondelles. ''Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr.'' (2) 7: iv-v. (1849)
*Description d'agromyzes et de phytomyzes écloses chez M. le colonel Goureau. ''Rev. Mag. Zool.'' (2) 3: 391–405. (1851)
*Diptères des environs de Paris. Famille des myopaires. ''Bull. Soc. Sci. Hist. Nat. L'Yonne'' 7: 83–160. (1853).
*''Histoire naturelle des diptères des environs de Paris. Oeuvre posthume du Dr Robineau-Desvoidy. Publiée par les soins de sa famille, sous la direction de M.H. Monceaux''.2 vols. Masson et Fils, Paris. 1500p. (1863)
Collection
The collection of Robineau-Desvoidy was largely destroyed. Some remains in the
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris and there are some specimens from it in the
Hope Department of Entomology of the University Museum, Oxford.
References
*Jean Gouillard (2004). ''Histoire des entomologistes français'', 1750–1950. Édition entièrement revue et augmentée. Boubée (Paris) : 287 p
Jacques d’Aguilar, 2007 ''Le Docteur Robineau-Desvoidy ou l’erreur est humaine'' INRA
External links
Followers of LamarckFrench website with a list of publications and photographs of Robineau-Desvoidy's signature.
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1799 births
1857 deaths
19th-century French zoologists
French entomologists
Dipterists
French taxonomists