Maurice Pic (23 March 1866, in
Marrigny near Digoin – 29 December 1957, in
Les Guerreaux
Les Guerreaux () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
See also
*Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department
The following is a list of the 565 communes of the Saône-et-Lo ...
) 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 ...
who specialised in
Coleoptera
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
. He contributed to
Mary-Louis Fauconnet's ''Catalogue raisonné des coléoptères de Saône-et-Loire'' (Le Creusot, Martet, 1887) and wrote many short papers, many in ''L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne'' describing world beetles. His most important work was for
Sigmund Schenkling
Sigmund Schenkling (11 July 1865, in Laucha an der Unstrut – 16 December 1946, in Eisleben) was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
Schenkling's collection is held by the German Entomological Institute. It is notable for ...
's still very relevant ''Coleopterorum Catalogus''.
Pic's collection is in 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.
Works
Excluding short papers.
*1898–1934. Matériaux pour servir a l'étude des Longicornes. Cahiers 1–11, 120 pages
*1902. Coleoptera Heteromera Fam. Hylophilidae.
P. Wytsman (ed.), ''Genera Insectorum''. Fascicule 8. P. Wytsman, Brussels, 14 pages, 1 pl.
*Parts 14. Hylophilidae (1911); 26. Scraptiidae, Pedilidae (1911); 36. Anthicidae (1911); 41. Ptinidae (1912); 48. Anobiidae (1912); 55. Bruchidae (1913); 58. Dascillidae, Helodidae, Eucinetidae (1914); 81. Rhipiceridae (1925); 87. Phloeophilidae, Rhadalidae, Prionoceridae (1926); 94. Phengodidae, Karumiidae (1927); 103. Dasytidae: Melyrinae (1929); 155. Dasytidae: Dasytinae (1937) of Schenkling S. (ed.), ''Coleopterorum Catalogus''. W. Junk, Berlin.
Periodicals
He published 3 periodicals:
* L'Échange, 1885–1956, 543 issues
* Mélanges Exotico-Entomologiques, 1911–1939, 71 issues
* Opuscula Martialis, 1940–1944, 13 issues
References
*Constantin (R.), 1992 – ''Memorial des Coléopteristes Français''. Bull. liaison Assoc. Col. reg. parisienne, Paris (Suppl. 14) Portrait
*Lhoste (J.), 1987 – ''Les entomologistes français. 1750–1950''.
INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Paris.
*Pic (M.), 1942 – Mon jubilé entomologique
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French entomologists
1866 births
1957 deaths
Coleopterists