Joseph Charles Bequaert

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Joseph Charles Bequaert
University of Ghent
Scientific career
Fieldsmalacology, entomology
InstitutionsAmerican 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]

Career

Bequaert obtained a doctorate in botany at the

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.

Memberships

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.

References in botany

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]

The standard author abbreviation Bequaert is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References in entomology

Bequaert was formerly commemorated in several names of ants. Note that only valid names are listed (as of July 2016).

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]

References in herpetology

Bequaert is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake and two frogs:[18][19]

Bibliography

He published over 250 papers; over 50 of them are about molluscs.[1]

(incomplete)

  • Pilsbry HA, Bequaert J (1927). "The Aquatic Mollusks of the Belgian Congo. With a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 53 (2): 69-602. PDF.
  • Bequaert J (1936). "A new North American mason-wasp from Virginia, with notes on some allied forms". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 84 (3004): 79–87.
  • Bequaert J (1948). Monograph of the Strophocheilidae, neotropical family of terrestrial mollusks. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. 210 pp.
  • Bequaert J (1950). Studies in the Achatininae, a group of African land snails. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. 216 pp.
  • Bequaert J, Miller WB (1973). The mollusks of the arid Southwest, with an Arizona checklist. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. xvi + 271 p.

References

  1. ^ a b Clench WJ (1982). "Joseph Charles Bequaert". The Nautilus 96(2): page 35.
  2. S2CID 187926901
    . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Normandiodendron bequaertii (De Wild.) J.Léonard". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Bequaert.
  5. ^ "Aenictogiton bequaerti - AntCat".
  6. ^ "Anochetus bequaerti - AntCat".
  7. ^ "Azteca bequaerti - AntCat".
  8. ^ "Camponotus confluens bequaerti - AntCat".
  9. ^ "Cataulacus bequaerti - AntCat".
  10. ^ "Centromyrmex bequaerti - AntCat".
  11. ^ "Strumigenys bequaerti - AntCat".
  12. ^ "Crematogaster bequaerti - AntCat".
  13. ^ "Dorylus bequaerti - AntCat".
  14. ^ "Monomorium bequaerti - AntCat".
  15. ^ "Pheidole bequaerti - AntCat".
  16. ^ "Phrynoponera bequaerti - AntCat".
  17. ^ "Tetramorium bequaerti - AntCat".
  18. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
    . ("Bequaert", p. 23).
  19. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8
    .

Further reading

External links
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