Jacques Surcouf

Jacques M R Surcouf (1873–1934) was a French entomologist. He held the title of baron and may have been of corsair descent[1] (see Robert Surcouf).

From at least 1906–1911, he was head of zoology at the colonial laboratory of the Paris National Museum of Natural History.[2][3][4]

He published a number of notable studies, largely on the subject of flies. In 1909 he published a description of four new species of horse-fly (Tabanidae) from India and Assam with Gertrude Ricardo, a scientist from the British Museum.[5] In 1911 he published a noted study of South American Diptera (flies) with R. Gonzales-Rincones.[6][1]

Surcouf was a difficult person to work with and clashed with his peers, particularly, for example, Eugene Seguy.[1]

In 1920 he distinguished the genus Caiusa from Phumosia in the family Calliphoridae based on flies he discovered in southern India and in Australia.[7][8]

He was a member of the Société entomologique de France starting in 1905,[1] and the president of the Société entomologique de France in 1921.

  1. ^ a b c d Cambefort, Y. "Knowledge of Diptera in France from the beginning to the early twentieth century." INSECTS AND ILLNESSES: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 50 (2008): 173-185.
  2. ^ de Kerville, Henri Gadeau, Karl Graf von Attems, Ignacio Bolivar de Urrutia, Ignacio Bolívar y Irrutia, Raphaël Anatole Émile Blanchard, and Louis Germain. Voyage zoologique en Khroumirie (Tunisie) mai-juin 1906. J.-B. Baillière, 1908. p4
  3. ^ Surcouf, Jacques, Note sur un Hymenoptere parasite des Cruciferes de l'Inde in Daniel, M. Lucien, Revue Bretonne de Botanique Pure & Appliquee. No 3-4, December 1908, p17-18
  4. ^ Bulletin de la Société des amis des sciences naturelles de Rouen, Volumes 50-51, Société des amis des sciences naturelles, Rouen imprimerie J. Lecerf, 1914
  5. ^ Creese, Mary RS. Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900: a survey of their contributions to Research. Scarecrow Press, 2000. p74
  6. ^ Surcouf, J., Gonzalez Rincones, R. Essai Sur los dipteros vulnerants de Venezuela Edt. Maloine. (Paris). 1911, 320 pgs.
  7. ^ Revision of the frog fly genus Caiusa Surcouf, 1920 (Diptera, Calliphoridae), with a note on the identity of Plinthomyia emimelania Rondani, 1875" (PDF). zootaxa. p4 Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  8. ^ Surcouf, J.M.R. [1920] Révision des Muscidæ testaceæ. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, (5) 6 (‘1914’, ‘1919’), 27–124.