A short necrology has been published by Jacques Rigout.[1]
He was born at
Amay, He is attracted by the forms and the colors of insects, he abandons his studies of pharmacy to be engaged at the age of 28 as naturalist trainee to the
Royal museum of natural History of Belgium.
After a stay of one year in Africa in the
National park of Garamba, he returns to the museum where he is in charge of the collections of insects with aquatic habits.
Works
His publications are numerous, among these we can note:
1952. Contribution à l'étude des Ephoronidae Euthyplociinae, 1952, Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 28 (45), pp. 1–22
1966. Contribution à l'étude des Ephéméroptères du Surinam, 1952, Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 42 (37), pp. 1–22
1970. Ephemeroptera des faunes éthiopiennes et malgache, South African Animal Life, 14, pp. 24–170
1975. Remarques sur la nervation alaire des Oligoneuridae (Ephemeroptera), Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 51, pp. 1–4