Joseph Th.Villeneuve de Janti
Encyclopedia
Joseph Villeneuve de Janti (1868–1944) Was a French
entomologist who specialised in
Diptera
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He worked at the Pasteur Institute
in Paris
and at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
in the same city.As well as naming many new taxa Villeneuve made many significant contributions to medical entomology
.
He was a Member of the Société entomologique de France
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
entomologist who specialised in
Diptera
Diptera
Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...
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He worked at the Pasteur Institute
Pasteur Institute
The Pasteur Institute is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who made some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern medicine at the time, including pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax...
in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
and at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...
in the same city.As well as naming many new taxa Villeneuve made many significant contributions to medical entomology
Medical entomology
The discipline of medical entomology, or public health entomology, and also veterinary entomology is focused upon insects and arthropods that impact human health. Veterinary entomology is included in this category, because many animal diseases can "jump species" and become a human health threat,...
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He was a Member of the Société entomologique de France
Société entomologique de France
The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. It was founded in 1832.The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832...
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Works
Partial list- 1911. Description de deux nouveaux Diptères. Wien. Entomol. Ztg. 30: 81-84.)
- 1914. Etude sur quelques types de myodaires supérieurs. I.Types de Fabricius et de Wiedemann du Museé zoologique de Copenhague. Rev. Zool. Afr. 3: 429-41.
- 1915. Diptères nouveaux d'Afrique. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1915: 225-27.
- 1918. Espèes nouvelles de diptères de la famille des Cypselidae (Borboridae). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1917: 333-38. (
- 1922. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles du genre "Musca". Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (10) 5: 335-36.
- 1926. Descriptions de myodaires supérieurs nouveaux. Bull. Ann. Soc. R. Entomol. Belg. 66: 269-75.
- 1927. Myodaires supérieurs nouveaux de l'Ile de Formose. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 15: 387-97.
- 1929. Myodaires supérieurs nouveaux. Bull. Ann. Soc. R. Entomol. Belg. 69: 61-68.
- 1936. Schwedisch-chinesische wissenschaftliche Expedition nach den nordwestlichen Provinzen Chinas, unter Leitung von Dr. Sven Hedin und Prof. Sh Ping-chang. Insekten gesammelt vom schwedischen Arzt der Expedition Dr. David Hummel 1927—1930. 52. Diptera. 16. Muscidae. Ark. Zool. (A) 27(34), 13 p.