Georges Rousseau-Decelle Explained
Georges Rousseau-Decelle (2 January 1878, in Roche-sur-Yon – 1965) was a French entomologist.
Rousseau-Decelle amassed a large collection of worldwide butterflies containing many rare species, notably in the genera Morpho and Ornithoptera. He was primarily interested in infraspecific variation.
Georges Rousseau-Decelle was a chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and a member of the Société entomologique de France.
Works
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Note the extreme "splitting" (dividing a taxon into multiple taxa) on the basis of minute morphological differences)
- (1933) Quelques formes nouvelles et aberrantes des genres Papilio et Charaxes (Lep.) Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 37(20): 301-307][''P. cleotas lemoulti'', ''P. c. l.'' individual female form ''horizonicus'', ''P. c. l.'' individual female form ''luteovirens'', ''P. oxynius'' individual female form ''niveomarginatus'']
- (1933) Note sur quelques formes nouvelles des genres Papilio et Charaxes (Lep.) Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 38(17):269-273[''P. oxynius'' female form ''ochracea'', ''P.pausanias pausanias'' individual male forme ''burneomaculatus'']
- (1935) Note sur quelques formes nouvelles de Morpho (Lep. Morphidae) Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 40(15):219-226 [''M. hercules'' male individual form ''violina'', ''M. perseus caius'', ''M.caius'' form ''tiberius'', ''M. hecuba obidonus'' male individual form ''minima'', ''M. peleides faustina'', ''M. portis thamyris'' male individual form ''aegoides'', ''M. p. t.'' male individual form ''claro'', ''M. p. t.'' male individual form ''argentatus'', ''M. eugenia'' male individual form ''parthenopa'', ''M. e.'' male individual form ''rosea'', ''M. aega'' female individual form ''saphiralineata'', ''M. cypris'' male individual form ''cellamaculosa'', ''M. menalaus'' male individual form ''purpureotinctus'', ''M. menelaus'' male individual form ''chlorophorus'', ''M. godarti'' male individual form ''lactescens'', ''M. didius'' male individual form ''bipunctata'', ''M. d.'' male individual form ''subrufa'']
- (1936) Des variations parallèles chez les Morphos des espèces hecuba et perseus (Lepidopt. Morphidae), pp. 293–296, pl. 13. In: Livre Jubilaire de M. Eugène-LouisBouvier. Paris, Fermin-Didot et Cie.
- (1943) Notes sur quelques formes nouvelles de Papilio américains (Lep. Papilionidae) Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 48(8) :109-113, pl. 1[''P. gundlachianus'' male individual form ''unipunctus'', ''P. g.'' male individual form ''pauperimus'', ''P. vertumnus diceros'' female individual form ''regularis'', ''P. drucei'' male individual form ''nucalensis'', ''P. iphidamas'' female individual form ''poverella'', ''P. lysander isanae'', ''P.l.'' male individual form ''extensa'', ''P. l.'' male individual form ''reducta'', ''P. neophilus olivencius'' female individual form ''rosissima'', ''P. lycophron lycophron'' male individual form ''thersitoides'', ''P. l. pirithous'' female individual form ''suffusa'', ''P. hyppason'' male individual form ''unimacula'', ''P. garleppi interruptus'' female form ''xanthica'', ''P.torquatus polybius'' female form ''albosignata'', ''P.scamander grayi'' female individual form ''leucomelas'', ''P.s.g.'' male individual form ''laticlavius'', ''P. s. eurymander'' female individual form ''arlequina'', ''P. lysithous'' form ''lucius'']
- 1960. Note sur une forme nouvelle de Papilio anchises Linn. Papilio anchises orinocensis, subsp. nov. Novedades científicas. Contribuciones ocasionales del Museo de Historia natural La Salle (Caracas) 26: 1-7, 3 figs. [new forms: ''P. a. o.'' male form ''smaragdalis'', ''P. a. o.'' female form ''meania'']
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