Andre Jean Robineau-Desvoidy Baptist

André Jean Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy is a Médecin, a Entomologiste and a geologist French, born on January 1st 1799 with Saint-Saver-in-Puisaye and dead the June 25th 1857 with Paris.

He studies medicine in Paris but passes his thesis to Montpellier. He starts to exert in his birthplace. He has important customers because it sometimes happens to him to forget to ask fees. He very early starts to be interested in the Entomologie and in particular to the Diptère S. Its first publication is devoted to the Tachinaire S is worth to him the congratulations of its former professors: Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774-1860) and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850) which submits an eulogistic report/ratio of it that Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) itself will sign. Robineau-Desvoidy is interested consequently in multiple aspects of the Natural history: the olfactive apparatus of the Crustacean S (1820), anatomy of the horn of dipterous (1821), anatomy of the cuticule of the Arthropod S (1822). It dedicates its Recherches on the vertebral organization of shellfish, Arachnida and the insects (1828) to Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844). In 1830, it makes appear a study on the tachinaires in which it describes 3.000 S. In addition to its entomological work, it also makes appear geological and paleontological investigations.

Very solitary and of an aggressive temperament, it runs up against Cuvier, Latreille, Blainville, Pierre Justin Marie Macquart (1778-1855). He asks, in his will to be buried in his property of Saint-Saver-in-Puisaye in presence only of his horse and his dog. Its very rich collection the dipterous ones is offered to the national Muséum of natural history only in 1931 in a state of advanced decay.

List partial of the publications

Test on the tribe of the culicides. Mém. Plowshare Hist. Nat. Paris 3: 390-413 (1827).
Test on the myodaires. Mém. Near. Div. Sav. Acad. R. Sci. Inst. France 2 (2), 813 p. (1830).
Note on the fucellie kind, Fucellia, R.D., and in particular on Fucellia arenaria. Ann. Entomol plowshare. France 10: 269-72. (1842).
Myodaires of the surroundings of Paris. Ann. Entomol plowshare. Fr . (2) 6: 429-77. (1849). This article marks the beginning of a series of which the first part has as a title " Studies on the myodaires of the surroundings of Paris." These parts appear in Ann. Entomol plowshare. France (2) 2: 5-38 (1844); (2) 4: 17-38 (1846); (2) 5: 255-87 (1847); (2) 6: 429-77 (1849); (2) 8: 183-209 (1850); (2) 9: 177-90, 305-21 (1851).
Memory of Mr. Leon Dufour where it gives the description of the larva and manners of a muscide, larva which saw blood of small swallows. Bull. Entomol plowshare. France (2) 7: iv-v. (1849)
Description of agromyzes and phytomyzes hatched at Mr. colonel Goureau. rev. Mag. Zool. (2) 3: 391-405. (1851)
Dipterous of the surroundings of Paris. Family of the myopaires. Bull. Sci plowshare. Hist. Nat. Yonne 7: 83-160. (1853).
Natural history of dipterous of the surroundings of Paris. Posthumous work of Dr. Robineau-Desvoidy. Published by the care of its family, under the direction of M.H. Heaps . 2 volumes. Masson and Fils, Paris. 1.500 p. (1863)

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