Valéry Mayet (2 January 1839, in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

– 1909) was a French

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

. He was professor of

zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

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at the French National School of Agriculture ( École nationale d'agriculture).

Publications

* ''Sur l'oeuf du Phylloxera'', 1881 (On the eggs of

phylloxera Grape phylloxera is an insect pest of grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America. Grape phylloxera (''Daktulosphaira vitifoliae'' (Fitch 1855) belongs to the family Phylloxeridae, within the order Hemiptera, bugs); orig ...

). * ''Résultats des traitements effectués en Suisse en vue de la destruction du Phylloxera'', 1881 (Results on treatments used in

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for destruction of phylloxera). * ''Voyage dans le sud de la Tunisie''. 1886 (Travel into southern

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

). *
Les Insectes de la vigne
'.

: Camille Coulet, 1890. * ''The phylloxera of the vine'', by Valéry Mayet; translated for the Board of Viticultural Commissioners, 1894. * ''La Cochenille des vignes du Chili''. 1895 (The

cochineal The cochineal ( , ; ''Dactylopius coccus'') is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived. A primarily sessility (motility), sessile parasitism, parasite native to tropical and subtropical Sout ...

of Chilean vineyards). * ''Essai de géographie zoologique de l'Hérault''. 1898 (Zoological geography of Herault). * ''Catalogue raisonné des reptiles et batraciens de la Tunisie''. 1903 (

Catalogue raisonné A (or critical catalogue) is an annotated listing of the works of an artist or group of artists and can contain all works or a selection of works categorised by different parameters such as medium or period. A ''catalogue raisonné'' is normal ...

reptiles Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with an ectothermic metabolism and Amniotic egg, amniotic development. Living traditional reptiles comprise four Order (biology), orders: Testudines, Crocodilia, Squamata, and Rhynchocepha ...

and

amphibians Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniote, anamniotic, tetrapod, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class (biology), class Amphibia. In its broadest sense, it is a paraphyletic group encompassing all Tetrapod, tetrapods, but excl ...

of Tunisia.IDREF.fr
(list of publications).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayet, Valery French entomologists 1839 births 1909 deaths Scientists from Lyon Academic staff of the University of Montpellier