Robert François du Buysson (Born 6 May 1861 -

Broût-Vernet Broût-Vernet (; oc, Brot e Le Vernet) is a commune in the Allier department in central France. It is around 15 km north-west of Vichy and 40 km north of Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand (, ; ; oc, label=Auvergnat, Clarmont-Fer ...

(Allier) - Deceased 16 March 1946 - Saint-Rémy-la-Varenne (Maine-et-Loire)), was a French naturalist.

Biography

He is the son of botanist :fr:François-Charles du Buysson (1825-1906) and Mathilde de Montaignac (1829-1899) and the brother of entomologist :fr:Henri du Buysson. Having developed a taste for herbariums at a very young age and a keen sense of observation, Robert du Buysson began to study the mosses of his native region rapidly expanding his field of study to lichens and vascular cryptogams. From 1888 to 1893 he published an inventory of vascular cryptogams of Europe in the Scientific Review of Bourbonnais and the Centre of France. In the field of

bryology Bryology (from Greek , a moss, a liverwort) is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts). Bryologists are people who have an active interest in observing, recording, classifying or ...

, the name of Robert du Buysson remains attached to two species: '' Orthorichum berthoumieui'', named in honor of Father Berthoumieu with whom he studied the

mosses Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and horn ...

around Saint-Pourçain (Allier), and '' Barbula buyssoni''. Robert du Buysson distinguished himself especially in the study of

insects Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of j ...

In April 1898 he obtained a position as a temporary entomology preparer at the Zoology Laboratory of the

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in Paris. In 1900, he was appointed titular preparer for insects and

crustaceans Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...

. Most of his work has been published in the ''

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 ...

'' Robert du Buysson bequeathed his collection of

hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

to the entomology laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History.

Family

Du Buysson Married Claire d'Espinay on February 8, 1899, and had one daughter Marie-Cécile du Buysson (1899-1997) His two siblings were Henri du Buysson, Marquis du Buysson (1856-1927) and Isabelle du Buysson b.1858.

Publications

* List may be incomplete.

1903

* du Buysson, R., 1903: Note pour servir à l'histoire des Strepsiptères. Bull. Soc. Ent. France 1903" 174-175.

1905

* du Buysson, R., 1905: Monographie des guêpes ou Vespa. Ann. Soc. Ent. France 72: 260–288. * du Buysson, R., 1905: Monographie des guêpes ou Vespa (Parts 2 and 3). Ann. Soc. Ent. France 73: 485–556, 565-634, 11 pl. * du Buysson, R., 1905: Monographie des Vespides du genre Nectarina. Ann. Soc. Ent. France 74: 537–566, 6 pl. * du Buysson, R., 1905: Descriptions d'Hymenopteres nouveaux. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 1905: 281–282.

1907

* du Buysson, R., 1907: Nouvelles especes d'Ischnogaster (Hymenopteres) appartenant au Musee de. Notes from the Leyden Musum 29: 79–80.

1908

* du Buysson, R., 1908: Deux Hyménoptères nouveaux de Java. Notes from the Leyden Museum 30: 123–126

1909

* du Buysson, R., 1909: Monographie des Vespides du genre Belonogaster. Ann. Soc. Ent. France 78: 199–270, 6 pl.. Ann Soc Entomol Fr 72: 260–288. * du Buysson, R., 1909: Hyménoptères nouveaux ou peu connus. Annali del Museo di Storia Naturale di Genova, ser 3 4 (= 44): 312–315. * du Buysson, R., 1909: Deux Hyménoptères nouveaux d'Oceanie. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 1909: 305–306.

1913

* du Buysson, R., 1913 (1911): Hymenoptera der Aru- und Kei-Inseln, Vespi-dae et Eumenidae. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturfor-schenden Gesellschaft 34: 227–230. * du Buysson, R., 1913: Sur deux Vespides de Java. Bulletin du Musée royal d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 7: 436–437. * du Buysson, R., 1913: Sur quelques Vespides (Hym.). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 1913: 296–301.

Notes

* Lamy (D.), « Robert du Buysson (1861-1946) et la bryologie dans l'Allier entre 1870 et 1895 », in ''Cryptogamie. Bryologie, lichénologie'', INIST-CNRS, 1984, .

Sources

*Biographical information is based on a translation from an equivalent article at the French

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