Jacques M R Surcouf (1873–1934) was a French

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. He held the title of baron and may have been of

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). From at least 1906–1911, he was head of zoology at the colonial laboratory of the Paris National Museum of Natural History. He published a number of notable studies, largely on the subject of flies. In 1909 he published a description of four new species of

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(Tabanidae) from India and Assam with Gertrude Ricardo, a scientist from the

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. In 1911 he published a noted study of South American Diptera (flies) with R. Gonzales-Rincones.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. Surcouf was a difficult person to work with and clashed with his peers, particularly, for example,

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. In 1920 he distinguished the genus Caiusa from Phumosia in the family

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based on flies he discovered in southern India and in Australia.Surcouf, J.M.R.

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Révision des Muscidæ testaceæ. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, (5) 6 (‘1914’, ‘1919’), 27–124. He was a member of the

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starting in 1905, and the president of the Société entomologique de France in 1921.

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French entomologists Presidents of the Société entomologique de France 1873 births 1934 deaths National Museum of Natural History (France) people {{entomologist-stub