Francisque Guillebeau Explained

Francisque Guillebeau (1821, Lyon  - 1897) was a French entomologist, specializing in Coleoptera.

A farmer by trade, he also spent twelve years serving as a justice of the peace. From 1858 to 1874 he was mayor in the town of Le Plantay.

In 1850 he became a corresponding member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon. In Lyon, he had as influences; entomologists Antoine Foudras and Étienne Mulsant, with whom he published several papers on Coleoptera. For many years he abandoned entomological work,[1] resuming these activities later on in life as he conducted collection excursions in France, Switzerland and Austria.[1] [2]

His Coleoptera collection was acquired by Paul de Fréminville (1859-1939), who subsequently made it part of his personal insect collection. Later it was transferred to the Musée de Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse, and since 1997 it has been housed at the Muséum de Lyon.[3] [4]

Guillebeau is the taxonomic authority of numerous species of beetles, as well as the circumscriber of several genera; e.g. Tinodemus, Podocesus, Nesiotus, Entomocnemus and Ochrodemus.[5] He was a member of the Société entomologique de France.[1]

Publications in entomology

Notes and References

  1. http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=110779 Sociétés savantes de France
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=rAkxAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA117 Bulletin, Issues 1-9
  3. http://www.museedesconfluences.fr/musee/conferences_colloques/colloques/2007_histoire_collections/actes/richoux.htm Musee des Confluences
  4. http://www.museum-lyon.org/collections/sciences_vie/collection_1.php Muséum de Lyon
  5. https://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/test/Arthropoda/Insects/Coleoptera/Family/Phalacridae.txt Insects Tamu.edu
  6. http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3701.1.5 Biotaxa
  7. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1649/0010-065X-67.2.123 BioOne.org
  8. http://www.organismnames.com/namedetails.htm?lsid=1682872 Thomson Reuter
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20130929073319/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=124535 Fauna Europaea