Joseph Charles Bequaert | |
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 Joseph Charles Bequaert | |
| Born | May 24, 1886 Torhout, Belgium |
| Died | January 12, 1982 (aged 95) |
| Alma mater | University of Ghent |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | malacology, entomology |
| Institutions | American Museum of Natural History and Harvard Medical School |
Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout (Belgium) and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts. [1]
Bequaert obtained a doctorate in botany at the University of Ghent in 1908. He was an entomologist, and from 1910 to 1912 he was part of la commission Belge sur la maladie du sommeil (Belgian Committee on sleeping sickness). From 1913 to 1915 he worked as a botanist in the Belgian Congo and also collected mollusks.
In 1916 he emigrated to the United States and was an associate researcher from 1917 to 1922 at the American Museum of Natural History. He became an American citizen in 1921, and taught entomology at the Harvard Medical School. From 1929 to 1956 he was Curator of Insects at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, and was Professor of Zoology from 1951 to 1956 within the same institution.
Bequaert became president of the American Malacological Union in 1954. He left his post at Harvard in 1956. From 1956 to 1960 he lectured in biology at the University of Houston. With Walter Bernard Miller (1918–2000), he published The Mollusks of the Arid Southwest in 1973.
He was a member of various learned societies: Zoological Society of France, the Entomological Society of America, the Belgian Royal Society of Entomology, the Belgian Society of Tropical Medicine, the Royal Institute of Colonial Belgium, Koninklijk Natuurwetenschappelijk Genootschap Dodonaea, and the Natural History Society of North Africa.
Bequaert was formerly commemorated in the taxon Bequaertiodendron magalismontanum (Sond.) Heine & J.H.Hemsl. now known as Englerophytum magalismontanum (Sond.) T.D.Penn. [2]
He was also honoured in 1993, in the naming of Normandiodendron bequaertii . [3]
Bequaert was formerly commemorated in several names of ants. Note that only valid names are listed (as of July 2016).
Aenictogiton bequaerti Forel, 1913 [5]
Anochetus bequaerti Forel, 1913 [6]
Azteca bequaerti Wheeler, 1929 [7]
Camponotus confluens bequaerti Forel, 1913 [8]
Cataulacus bequaerti Forel, 1913 [9]
Centromyrmex bequaerti (Forel, 1913) [10]
Strumigenys bequaerti Santschi, 1923 [11]
Crematogaster bequaerti Forel, 1913 [12]
Dorylus bequaerti Forel, 1913 [13]
Monomorium bequaerti Forel, 1913 [14]
Pheidole bequaerti Forel, 1913 [15]
Phrynoponera bequaerti Wheeler, 1922 [16]
Tetramorium bequaerti Forel, 1913 [17]
Bequaert is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake and two frogs: [18] [19]
He published over 250 papers; over 50 of them are about molluscs. [1]
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Phrynobatrachus bequaerti is a species of frog in the family Phrynobatrachidae. It is found in the mountains of north-western Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western Rwanda. The specific name bequaerti honours Joseph Charles Bequaert, a Belgian botanist, entomologist, and malacologist and who collected the holotype from Mount Vissoke. Common name Vissoke river frog has been coined for this species.
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Normandiodendron is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. It only contains one known species, Normandiodendron bequaertii(De Wild.) J.Léonard
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