Eugene Séguy (21 April 1890 – 1 June 1985) was a French

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

and

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

who specialised in

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

. He held a chair of entomology at the

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

in Paris from 1956 to 1960. He is also known for establishing the Diptera section at that museum. This entomologist is often confused with a French artist with a similar name: Émile-Allain Séguy (1877–1951). The latter is known for his

pochoir Stencilling produces an image or pattern on a surface, by applying pigment to a surface through an intermediate object, with designed holes in the intermediate object, to create a pattern or image on a surface, by allowing the pigment to reach ...

artworks representing plants and insects.

Work

* (Collection of biological and systematic studies on Diptera of the World). 11 vols. Text figs. Part of , Serie B II: Diptera. (1924–1953). * '' Faune de France''. :

Ptychopteridae The Ptychopteridae, phantom crane flies, are a small family (three extant genera) of nematocerous Diptera. Superficially similar in appearance to other "tipuloid" families, they lack the ocelli of the Trichoceridae, the five-branched radial vein ...

Phlebotominae The Phlebotominae are a subfamily of the family Psychodidae. In several countries, their common name is sandfly; but that name is also applied to other flies. The Phlebotominae include many genera of blood-feeding (hematophagous) flies, includi ...

109 p.,179 figs (1925). * . . Stratiomyidae to

Omphralidae The Scenopinidae or window flies are a small (about 400 described species) family of flies (Diptera), distributed worldwide. In buildings, they are often taken at windows, hence the common name window flies. The two species with cosmopolitan dist ...

308 p.,685 figs (1926). * . .

Asilidae The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects their notoriously aggressive pre ...

308 p.,685 figs 190 p.,384 figs (1927). * arzo-Luglio 1931 . ''Ann. Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova'' 55 930–1931 490–511, figures 1–3 (1932). * . Voyage de M.M. Lesne 928–192913e note. Diptères e partie Mems. Estud. Mus. zool. Univ. Coimbra 67: 5–80 (1933). * . Rev. Soc. ent. Argent. 6: 9–16, 3 figures (1934). * Séguy, E. . ; Ed.: Jeannel. Mus. Natn. Hist. nat. 8: 319–380 (1938). * Séguy, E., 1938 ; Delagrave. * . 684 p.,957 fig (1944). * . pp. 609. 7 col + 3 b/w plates, 225 text figs. (1950). * . Editions P. Lechevalier, Paris (FR)(1967).

References

* , Neuchâtel. * (1890–1985), 1990, Volume 26, Issue 3 of
on line

External links

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Les mouches, Planches d'Eugène Séguy
Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Neuchâtel * New York Public Library Digital Collection
archived prints
1890 births 1985 deaths French entomologists Dipterists National Museum of Natural History (France) people 20th-century French zoologists {{Printmaker-stub