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.

References
  1. 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.


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