Lucien Berland

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Lucien Berland ( born May 14, 1888 in Ay, † August 18 1962 in Versailles) was a French entomologist and Arachnologe.

Life and work

Already in childhood fascinated by nature, he studied at the Lycée Charlemagne, then at the Sorbonne, where he graduated in 1908 his bachelor of sciences naturelles. On the advice of Emil and Alice Racoviţă Pruvot -Fol he turned to studying the spiders. He met Eugène Louis Bouvier in the Museum of Paris, the Eugène Simon, the most important arachnologists his time, introduced him. Berland joined in 1912 as an assistant at the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle and worked under Eugene Bouvier in the entomological department laboratoire d' entomology. Berland was immediately responsible for the collections of Myriapoda, of arachnids, the Neuroptera, Orthoptera and Hymenoptera. Five years later the department was limited to insects. Berland was seriously injured during the First World War in Verdun. His son fell during the Second World War in 1944. Société zoologique de France he directed in 1952. There are over 200 publications published by him. Berland was there also interested in the behavior of spiders and wasps as predators.

He made ​​numerous trips to Africa, and there in the Sahara. Berland concluded with Louis Fage posthumously from the release of Eugène Simon on the Arachnids of France ( 1874-1937 ).

Named after Berland taxa

  • Afraflacilla berlandi Denis, 1955, Ragnar ( Salticidae ) - Libya
  • Brachyphaea berlandi Lessert, 1915, Spider ( Corinnidae ) - East Africa
  • Hasarius berlandi Lessert, 1925, Spider ( Salticidae ) - East Africa
  • Heterogriffus berlandi Lessert, 1938 Spider ( Thomisidae ) - Congo, Uganda, Angola
  • Opopaea berlandi Simon & Fage, 1922, Spider ( Oonopidae ) - East Africa
  • Pholcus berlandi Millot, 1941 Spider ( Pholcidae ) - Senegal
  • Saitis berlandi Roewer, 1951, Ragno ( Salticidae ) - New Hebrides
  • Speocera berlandi Machado, 1951, Ragnar ( Ochyroceratidae ) - Angola
  • Theridion berlandi Roewer, 1942, Magno ( Theridiidae ) - Samoa

Writings (selection )

Secondary literature

  • Lucien Chopard (1962). Lucien Berland (1888-1962), Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 67 (7-8): 143-144. ISSN 0037- 928x
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