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Renaud Paulian
(May 28, 1913 - August 16, 2003)

 

 
 

 

Taxonomic specialization:

 
Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea

 

 

Renaud Paulian is the dean of European scarab workers because of his very long and extremely productive career. Beginning in 1947 he served for 14 years as the Deputy Director of the Institut de Recherche Scientifique de Madagascar where he initiated the important series, Faune de Madagascar, of which there have been 89 volumes published (as of 1999). He then served as Director of the Institut Scientifique de Congo-Brazzaville and head of the local university for six years and then as Head of the Universite d'Abidjan in the Ivory Coast for three years. He returned to France in 1969 to become Recteur of the Academy of Amiens and then Recteur of the Academy of Bordeaux. He is an associate member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Paulian has published over 350 papers and several books, mostly on Scarabaeidae. Only a few are listed in the bibliography listed below. His research interests are the laparostict scarabaeoids of the world and especially the Ceratocanthidae.

 

A. Lobanov, August, 2003
(Materials of the site Scarab Workers: World Directory were used.

TOTAL OF PUBLICATIONS: more than 350

SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS:

Paulian, R. Faune de France. 38. Coleopteres Scarabeides. Paris, Lechevalier ed. 1941, 240 p., 445 figs (premiere edition, epuisee).

Paulian, R. Faune de France. 38. Coleopteres Scarabeides. Paris, Lechevalier ed. 1959, 298 p., 445 figs (deuxieme edition, epuisee).

Paulian, R. Les Coleopteres. Paris Payot ed., 1943, 233 p., 164 figs, 14 pls. (Prix Gadeau de Kerville de la Societe Entomologique de France).

Paulian, R. La vie des Scarabees. Paris, N.R.F., 1945, 233 p., 29 figs. (edition francaise epuisee; traduction italienne publiee en 1947).

Paulian, R. Faune de I'Empire francais. III. Coleopteres Scarabeides de I'Iindo-Chine francaise (premiere partie). Paris Larose ed., 1945, 228 p., 105 figs, 1 carte.

Paulian, R. Faune de I'Empire francais. III. Coleopteres Scarabeides de I'Iindo-Chine francaise. Deuxieme Partie. Paris, Soc. ent. France, 1959-1961, 271 p., 360 figs.

Paulian, R. Un naturaliste en Cote d'Ivoire. Paris, Stock ed., 1949, 225 p., 50 figs.

Paulian, R. La vie larvaire des Insectes. 1950, (n.s.) XXX, 205 p., 123 figs., 5 pls.

Paulian, R. Les Insectes nuisibles aux cutures dans la region de Tananarive. Public. IRSM, 1950, 120 p., figs., 6 pls.

Paulian, R. Faune des de France. II. Lucanoides et Scarabeoides. Paris, Lechevalier ed., 1982, 592 p., figs. (avec J. Baraud).

Paulian, R. Biologie des Insectes. Paris, Lechevalier ed., 1989, 719 p., figs (Prix Reaumur de la Societe Entomologique de France).

Paulian, R. Les Scarabaeoidea de Nouvelle Caledonie. Paris, ORSTOM Tropicale XXIX, 1991, 164 p., 41 figs.

Paulian, R. Les Insectes de Tahiti.- Taus, Boubee, 1998, 331 p., 169 figs., 10 pls. col.

Paulian, R. Les Corylophides d'Afrique.- Mem. IFAN, 1950, 12, 120 p., 86 figs.

FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR: T. 2. Paulian, R. Insectes Lepidopteres Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Acraeidae. - Tananarive, 1956, 102 p., 2 pl. col., 110 figs.

FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR: T. 5. Paulian, R. Insectes Mantodea. - Tananarive, 1957, 102 p., 63 figs.

FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR: T. 11. Paulian, R. Insectes Coleopteres Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeina et Onthophagini. - Tananarive, 1960, 125p., figs. (avec E.Lebis).

FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR: T. 13. Paulian, R. Zoogeographie de Madagascar et des iles voisines.- Tananarive, 1963, 482 p., 127 figs., 23 pls., 3 cartes h.t. (Prix Foulon de I'Academie des Sciences.).

FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR: T. 50. Paulian, R. Insectes Silphidae, Passalidae, Ceratocanthidae et Belohinidae. - Paris, 1979, 82 p., 31 figs (avec J.P. Lumaret).

FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR: T. 56. Paulian, R. Insectes Hybosoridae et Trogidae. - Paris, 1981, 28 p., figs.

FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR: T. 57. Paulian, R. Insectes Cetoniidae genre Euchroea. - Paris, 1982, 67 p., 66 figs, 2 pls. col. (avec A.Descarpentries).

FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR: T. 74. Paulian, R. Aphodiidae. - Paris, 1990, p. 1-14 et 223-239 (avec P.Bordat et R.Pittino).

FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR: T. 82. Paulian, R. Insectes Cetoniidae, genre Pygora. - Paris, 1994, 103 p., figs.

Last updated: August 19, 2003