Lucien Berland

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Lucien Berland is a Entomologiste and a arachnologist French, born the May 14th 1888 with Ay (the Marne) and dead the August 18th 1962 with Versailles.

Impassioned as of childhood by nature, it makes its studies with the Lycée Charlemagne then with the Sorbonne where it obtains a license of Natural science in 1908. It is on the councils of Emil Racovita (1868-1947) and of Alice Pruvot-Fol (1873-1972), that it is directed towards the study of the Araignée S. It then meets Louis Eugene Bouvier (1856-1944) of the Natural history museum of Paris which presents it to Eugene Simon (1848-1924), the most famous arachnologist of the time.

Berland enters to the national Muséum of natural history as preparer into 1912 within the laboratory of entomology, directed by Eugene Bouvier. Berland is at once charged with the collections of Myriapode S, of Arachnide S, the Névroptère S, the Orthoptère S and of the Hyménoptère S. Five years later, the pulpit is divided and the laboratory is restricted with the only insects. Berland is seriously wounded with Verdun during the First World War. One of its sons is shot by the Germans in 1944. It directs the zoological Société of France in 1952.

It makes appear of more than 200 publications, mainly devoted to questions of systematic. Berland is also interested in the behavior of the spiders and the predatory hyménoptères. It makes many voyages in Saharan Africa and North. Berland with Louis Fage (1883-1964) completes the posthumous publication of the Arachnides of France (1874-1937) of Eugene Simon. He studies the spiders brought back by Charles A. Alluaud (1861-1949) and Rene Gabriel Jeannel (1879-1965) of Eastern Africa (1911-1912). He translates of German Arachnida (1919) of Carl Friedrich Roewer (1881-1963) and of English the Threat of the insects (1935) of Leland Ossian Howard (1857-1950).

List partial of the publications

1925 : Fauna of France. 10, Hyménoptères vespiformes, I, Sphegidae, Pompilidae, Scoliidae, Sapygidae, Mutillidae (Paul Lechevalier, Paris).
1927 : “The Spiders ubiquists, or with broad distribution, and their means of dissemination”, Summary record of the meetings of the Company of biogeography , 23 : 65-67.
1929 : Fauna of France. 19, Hyménoptères vespiformes, II, Eumenidae, Vespidae, Masaridae, Bethylidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae (Paul Lechevalier, Paris).
1929 : “Spiders collected by Mrs Pruvot in the Loyalty islands”, Bulletin of the zoological Company of France , LIV : 387-399.
1929 : with Leon Bertin (1896-1954), the Fauna of France. Booklet 2. Arachnida and Crustacean (Delagrave, Paris).
1930 : “Curious ocular anomaly in a spider”, Bulletin of the zoological Company of France , LV : 193-195.
1932 : Arachnida: (scorpions, spiders, etc): systematic biology (Paul Lechevalier, Paris).
1933 : “On the parasitism of the phorides (dipterous)”, Bulletin of the zoological Company of France , LVIII : 529-530.
1934 : “A probable case of geographical parthenogenesis at Leucorpis Gigas (Hyménoptère)”, Bulletin of the zoological Company of France , LVIX : 172-175.
1934 : “A new species of Nemoscolus (spider) of French Sudan, and its industry”, Bulletin of the zoological Company of France , LVIX : 247-251.
1934 : with Jacques Pellegrin (1873-1944), “On a fishing spider of fish”, Bulletin of the zoological Company of France , LVIX : 210-212.
1938 : the Spiders (Stock, Paris, collection Books of nature ).
1938 : with Francis Bernard (1908-1990), Fauna of France. 34, Hyménoptères vespiformes. III. (Cleptidae, Crysidae, Trigonalidae) (Paul Lechevalier, Paris).
1939 : the Wasps (Stock, Paris, collection Books of nature ).
1940 : with Raymond Benoist (? - 1970), F. Bernard and Henri Maneval (1892-1942), the Fauna of France in illustrated synoptic tables… Volume 7. Hyménoptéres (Delagrave, Paris).
1941 : with Jacques Millot (1897-1980), Spiders of French Western Africa (Editions of the Natural history museum, Paris), Memories of the national Natural history museum of natural history . New series. T. XII. Booklet 2.
1942: insects and the man (university Presses of France, Paris, Collection Which do I know? , n° 83) - third edition, 1962.
1944: the Scorpions (Stock, Paris, collection Books of nature ).
1947 : Atlas of the hyménoptères of France, Belgium, Swiss (Boubée, Paris) - republished into 1958,1976.
1947: Fauna of France. 47, Hyménoptères tenthrédoïdes (Paul Lechevalier, Paris).
1955 : Arachnida of the French Black Africa (IFAN, Dakar).
1962 : Atlas of Névroptères de France, Belgium, Switzerland. Mégaloptères, Raphidioptères, Névroptères planipennes, Mécoptères, Trichoptères (Boubée, Paris).

Source

Lucien Chopard (1962). Lucien Berland (1888-1962), Bulletin of the entomological Company of France , 67 (7-8): 143-144.

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