Marc Soula (27 April 1945 – 23 February 2012) was a French

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. He was born in

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Published works

The majority of Soula's publications dealt with

scarab beetles The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several sub ...

of the subfamily

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. He studied the collection of these insects of the Entomology Laboratory of the

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. He published his works in the series

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. He wrote volumes 26 and 29, with their supplements 26.1, 26.2 and 26.3. He published the books "Les Coléoptères du Nouveau Monde", with five volumes, as a supplement to the journal Besoiro, as well as a few descriptive notes. In 2002, he described the genus ''Maripa'' to make a play on words with the place name

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. As this name was preoccupied, however, he replaced it with a new name, ''Theuremaripa'' which means "do not get married again" in French. In total, he described 515 taxa over his career.List of taxa described by Marc Soula
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Insect species named after him

* '' Aegognathus soulai'' Arnaud & Bomans, 2004 * '' Dicranobia soulai'' Devecis, 2006 * '' Enchophora soulai'' Bleuzen & Porion, 2004 * '' Popillia soulai'' Limbourg, 2008 * '' Protaetia soulai'' Arnaud, 2004 * '' Spodochlamys soulai'' Curoe, 2011

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Soula, Marc 1945 births 2012 deaths French entomologists Coleopterists People from Oran Pieds-Noirs