Octave Parent

Abbé Octave Parent, (15 June 1882 in Trescault – 9 February 1942 in Ambleteuse) was a French entomologist who specialized in Diptera, mostly the family Dolichopodidae.^[1] He became director of the Biological Station, Ambleteuse.^[2]

He published three papers, dated 1934, 1937 and 1940, concerning twenty-six new species of Hawaiian Campsicnemus. Details from the 1937 paper were returned to the Hawaiian Entomological Society.^[3] The species Sigmatineurum parenti, found in Hawaii, is named in memory of Parent, "in honor of his foundational work with Hawaiian dolichopodids and for describing the genus Sigmatineurum".^[4]

Publications

Parent published numerous works from 1913 onwards,^[2] including:

• Parent, O. (1928). Etude sur les diptères dolichopodides exotiques conservès au Zoologisches Staatsinstitut und Zoologisches Museum de Hambourg. Zoologisches Staatsinstitut u. Zoolog. Museum.
• Parent, O. (1928). Contribution à la faune diptérologique de l'Espagne. Museo.
• Parent, O. (1931). Diptères Dolichopodides de l'Amérique du Sud: espèces nouvelles figurant dans la collection Schnuse conservée aux Staatliche museen für tierkunde und völkerkunde zu Dresden (Vol. 18). BG Teubner.
• Parent, O. (1932). Etude sur les types de Bigot (Dipteres, Dolichopodides). In Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles ser. B (Vol. 52, No. pt 1, pp. 215-231).
• Parent, O. (1933). Nouvelle étude sur les Diptères Dolichopodides de la région Australienne.
• Parent, O. (1933). Étude monographique sur les diptères dolichopodides de Nouvelle-Zélande.
• Parent, O., & Parent, O. (1938). Diptères dolichopodidae. Lechevalier.

References

1. Schubert, Editha. "Biographies of the Entomologists of the World". Retrieved 30 August 2016.
2. "Aus der entomologischen Welt" (PDF). Arb. morphol. taxon. Ent. Berlin-Dahlem. 9 (2): 134. 1942. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
3. Neal L. Evenhuis, Lucius G Eldredge, eds. (7 September 2007). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers (PDF). Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press. p. 19.
4. Neal L. Evenhuis (1997). "The Genus Sigmatineurum Parent in Hawaii (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a Revised Key to Species" (PDF). Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 48: 69. Retrieved 30 August 2016.