Culex brumpti Galliard, 1931

Keith Snow, 2001, The names of European mosqitoes: Part 7, European Mosqito Bulletin 9, pp. 4-8 : 8

Culex brumpti Galliard, 1931

Gall.iard. R (1931) Culex brumpti, n. sp. Moustique nouveau trouve en Corse. AnnaJes de Parasitologie

humaine et comparee 9, 134-139.

Galliard describes the larva, male and female of this species from Corsica and illustrates the characteristic

features of the larva, male wing and male hypopygium. However he makes no reference to Emile Brwnpt, after

whom he clearly named the species.

Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt (1877-1951) was one of the most distinguished parasitologists of all time. His

Precis de Parasitologie was a standard work from the first edition in 1910 to the sixth edition in 1949. He

trained in zoology at the Sorbonne and in parasitology at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. He gained his Se.D. in

1901 and his MD. in 1906. In 1919 he became professor in the Faculty of Medicine and director of the

laboratory of Parasitology in Paris. He retired in 1948.

In 1903 he was as a member of an expedition to Africa in which he formulated the hypothesis that the tsetse fly,

Glossina palpalis might be the vector of human trypanosomiasis. He also discovered the avian malarial parasite,

Plasmodium gallinaceum during a trip to Ceylon. His many published papers include several on anopheline

mosquitoes and their relationships with malaria, including 1£s Anopheles de Corse in 1925.