Philippe Magnien Paris, France      Retired naval engineer, I have been an amateur entomologist since 1973. Under the leadership of Jean Péricart, I chose to work on French Heteroptera. About fifteen years ago, I began to study the family Cydnidae more closely, and in recent years, I undertook the study of the Tessaratomidae. My goal is an overall review of the entire family, which I foresee to be at least a ten year task. I also plan to build an illustrated catalog of the family on the web.      I am currently completing a review of the genus Pygoplatys, and I am starting the same for Agapophyta. I am also touring many museums, not only for the two abovementioned taxa, but also to identify all the types of Tessaratomidae, in order to establish a completely stabilized taxonomy.

Contact Information:
Philippe Magnien
6, rue Bleue
F-75009 Paris
FRANCE

philippe@heteroptera.fr

http://www.heteroptera.fr

Current Projects:

1) Review of the genus Pygoplatys.

2) Identification of type specimens of Tessaratomidae.

3) Review of the genus Agapophyta.

4) Description of some new taxa.

5) Contribution of the Legnotus and Ochetostethus parts of the Cydnidae in the Faune de France.

6) Development of an on line catalog of the Tessaratomidae

7) Sorting the Tessaratomidae in the collections of the MNHN (under the direction of Éric Guilbert and Dominique Pluot-Sigwalt).

Publications:

Magnien, Ph. 1998. Contribution à l'étude du genre Legnotus Schiødte et description d'une espèce nouvelle de Turquie. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 103(5): 463-473.

Magnien, Ph. 2000. Observations et captures intéressantes d'Hémiptères: Espèces nouvelles pour la France et la Grèce (Heteroptera: Corixidae, Nabidae, Tingidae, Lygaeidae, Miridae, Cydnidae). Nouvelle revue d'entomologie. 16(3): 284-287.

Magnien, Ph. 2005. About the distribution of some West-Palearctic Sehirinae (Heteroptera, Cydnidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 14(1): 54-55.

Dusoulier, F. and Ph. Magnien. 2006. Nouvelles observations d'Eurygaster dilaticollis Dohrn, 1860 en France (Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). Nouvelle revue d'entomologie (ns) 22(4)[2005]: 364.

Dusoulier, F. and Ph. Magnien. 2006. Contribution à la connaissance des Thyreocoris de France (Heteroptera: Thyreocoridae). Bulletin de la Société des sciences naturelles de l'Ouest de la France (ns) 28(3): 170-175.

Magnien, Ph. 2006. A new species from the Near East for the genus Ochetostethus Fieber 1860 (Heteroptera, Cydnidae). Denisia 19, Hug the bug - For love of true bugs. Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Ernst Heiss., 50: 513-516.

Magnien, Ph. 2008. New species and synonymy in genus Pygoplatys Dallas, 1851 (Heteroptera, Tessaratomidae). Nouvelle revue d'entomologie (ns) 24(2)[2007]: 113-124. [PDF]

Magnien, Ph., K. Smets, D. Pluot-Sigwalt, and J. Constant. 2008. A new species of Pygoplatys Dallas (Heteroptera, Tessaratomidae) from the Damar agroforests in Sumatra: Description, immatures and biology. Nouvelle revue d'entomologie (ns) 24(2)[2007]: 99-112. [PDF]

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updated: 25 March 2008

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