Marius Descamps (16 June 1924 – 20 February 1996) 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 ...

, specialist of

orthoptera Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – gras ...

at the

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

in Paris.

Works

Published ''Recherches morphologiques et biologiques sur les Diopsidae du Nord Cameroun''.

References

* 1924 births 1996 deaths French entomologists National Museum of Natural History (France) people 20th-century French zoologists {{entomologist-stub