Charles Boursin

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Charles Boursin (born December 6, 1901 in Nantes , † December 27, 1971 in Paris ) was a French lepidopterist .

Life

Charles Boursin was born in Nantes as the son of a notary , enjoyed a very careful, multilingual upbringing and learned the German language, which he was fluent in. He also had extensive knowledge of Russian. His teacher in entomology was Father Joseph de Joannis, who was very knowledgeable in the field. In the 1920s, Boursin found a job at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. There he took on a task with the processing of the Palearctic owl butterflies (Noctuidae) that was to become his purpose in life. So he undertook a thorough revision of the previous noctuid system. He became a research officer at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). His butterfly collection comprises 30,000 specimens of predominantly Palearctic trifin owls, including 171 holo- and 1990 paratypes, more than 4,000 genital specimens and a collection of approx. 12,000 photomicrographs of all species accessible to him and their genital morphology, especially the type specimens, originally in 24 folders. This collection in its entirety, together with the specialist library and the other academic legacy, has become the property of the State Museum for Natural History Karlsruhe .

Scientific works

The first publication by Boursin appeared in the bulletin of the Société entomologique de France in France in February 1923 and relates to the discovery of a new subspecies of Zygaena nevadensis ( Z. nevadensis interrupta ) from Coursegoules in the Alpes-Maritimes department . In the following years he published another 200 scientific works and described new species , for example Diarsia guadarramensis (original combination : Agrotis guadarramensis ) and numerous subspecies. In many areas he worked closely with the Hamburg entomologist Georg Warnecke .

Publications (selection)

  • Contributions to the knowledge of Agrotidae-Trifinae XXIII , Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologische Gesellschaft, 1940, pp. 474-543
  • A new genus of the subfamily Agrotinae from the Near Eastern-Mediterranean Faunenkreis ((Contributions to the knowledge of the Agrotidae-Trifinae) (LXII 62)) , Journal of the Wiener Entomologische Gesellschaft, 38th year, 1953, p. 212-217
  • The Noctuinae species (Agrotinae vulgo sensu) from Dr. hc HÖNE's China Yields (Contribution to Fauna Sinica) , Research Reports of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Springer Fachmedien GmbH, 1963, ISBN 978-3-663-06111-3
  • Les Noctuidae Trifinae de France et de Belgique (Contributions à l'Etude des Noctuidae Trifinae, 148) , Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 33, 1964, pp. 204-240
  • Description de 40 especes nouvelles de Noctuidae Trifinae paléarctiques et de deux genres nouveaux des sous-familIes Noctuinae et Amphipyrinae , Entomops, Nice 2 (15), 1969, pp. 215-240

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Gérard Chr. Luquet: Notes biographiques sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Charles Boursin (* 1901– † 1971) , Alexanor, Revue française de Lépidoptérologie, Cinquantième anniversaire, 2012, pp. 69–100
  2. ^ A b c Günter Ebert: In memoriam Charles Boursin , Contributions to Natural History Research in Southwest Germany, Volume 33, Karlsruhe 1974, pp. 5-6
personal data
SURNAME Boursin, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Nantes
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1971
Place of death Paris