Jacques Surcouf
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Jacques M R Surcouf (1873–1934) was a French entomologist. He held the title of baron and may have been of corsair descent[1] (see Robert Surcouf).
From at least 1906–1911, he was head of zoology at the colonial laboratory of the Paris National Museum of Natural History.[2][3][4]
He published a number of notable studies, largely on the subject of flies. In 1909 he published a description of four new species of horse-fly (Tabanidae) from India and Assam with Gertrude Ricardo, a scientist from the British Museum.[5] In 1911 he published a noted study of South American Diptera (flies) with R. Gonzales-Rincones.[6][1]
Surcouf was a difficult person to work with and clashed with his peers, particularly, for example, Eugene Seguy.[1]
In 1920 he distinguished the genus Caiusa from Phumosia in the family Calliphoridae based on flies he discovered in southern India and in Australia.[7][8]
He was a member of the Société entomologique de France starting in 1905,[1] and the president of the Société entomologique de France in 1921.