Martial Jean Maurice Noualhier (1 September 1860, La Borie,

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– 7 April 1898,

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) was a French

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who specialised in

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. He was the son of Martial Noualhier and Anaïs née Pougeard du Limbert. Maurice Noualhier made collecting expeditions to

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, to

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and to

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. He moved to the

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for his health and named a number of new species there. He purchased the Hemiptera and

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collection of Lucien François Lethierry (1830–1894). These specimens along with his own were left to the

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and his library to the

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of which he was a member.

Species

Noualhier named over fifty

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in his short life, at least twenty-nine of which continue to be valid, including: :*''Acrorrhinium conspersum'' (Noualhier, 1895) :*''Anisops debilis canariensis'' (Noualhier, 1893) (aquatic backswimmer bug) :*''Cixius verticalis'' (Noualhier, 1897) :*''Cosmoscarta septempunctata'' (Noualhier & Martin, 1904) :*''Cosmoscarta dimidiata'' (Noualhier, 1896) :*''Cyphopterum fauveli'' (Noualhier, 1897) :*''Eudolycoris alluaudi'' (Noualhier, 1893) :*''Hemisphaerius interclusus'' (Noualhier, 1896) :*''Laternaria monetaria'' (Noualhier, 1896) :*''Oecleus cucullatus'' (Noualhier, 1896) :*''Oecleopsis petasatus'' (Noualhier, 1896) :*''Ploiaria putoni'' (Noualhier, 1895) :*''Ricanoides flabellum'' (Noualhier, 1896) :*''Stusakia picticornis'' (Noualhier, 1898)Kment, Petr and Henry, Thomas J. (2008
"Note: Two Cases of Homonymy in the Family Berytidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)"
''Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington'' 110(3): pp. 811–813

References

Selected works

* 1893. Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud aux iles Canaries (Novembre 1889 - Juin 1890). 2e Memoire. Hémiptères Gymnocerates & Hydrocorises. ''

Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Annals are a concise form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year. The equivalent word in Latin and French is ''annales'', which is used untranslated in English in various contexts. List of works with titles contai ...

'' 52:5–18. * 1896. Note sur les Hémiptères récoltés en Indo-Chine et offerts au Muséum par M. Pavie. ''Bull. Mus. Paris'' 1896:251–259. * 1897. Hémiptères recueillis par M. A. Fauvel en Madère, en Mai et Juin 1896. ''Revue d'Entomologie'' Publiée par la Société Française d'Entomologie 16:76–80. * 1898. Hémiptères Gymnocérates récoltés au Sénégal par M. Chevreux (Campagne de la Goélette Melita en 1889–1890), avec la description des espéces nouvelles. ''Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle'' 1898(5):232–23 {{DEFAULTSORT:Noualhier, Maurice French entomologists 1860 births 1898 deaths