Françoise Beaucournu-Saguez

Françoise Beaucournu-Saguez (1936–11 August 2000) was a French entomologist who specialized in blackfly research.

Biography Beaucournu-Saguez published many studies on the blackflies (simuliids) of western Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from 1972 to 1992) with much of her research resulting from her personal fieldwork in France, Spain, Portugal and Morocco. According to an obituary,It is to her that we owe the first discovery that the female of Simulium velutinum can be distinguished from that of other European species of the S. aureum group (= Eusimulium s. str.) by lacking the usual pigmented “nipple” on the spermatheca at the base of the duct1 - a character that has proved constant and very reliable for recognizing this species among otherwise inseparable females.

Private life She was married to the parasitologist Jean-Claude Beaucournu (born 1934) who specialized in fleas (Siphonaptera) and who was a co-author on some of her blackfly research.

Beaucournu-Saguez died on 11 August 2000.

Selected works Her research is published under two different names: Beaucournu-Saguez, F., and Saguez, F. B.

Bailly-Choumara, H., & Beaucournu-Saguez, F. (1978). Contribution à l’étude des simulies du Maroc (Diptera, Simuliidae). 1. Le Rif. Bulletin de l’Institut scientifique, Rabat, 3, 121-144. Beaucournu-Saguez, F., & Bailly-Choumara, H. (1981). Prosimulium (Prosimulium) laamii n. sp.(Nematocera, Simuliidae), simulie nouvelle du nord du Maroc. Cahiers ORSTOM (série Entomologie médicale et Parasitologie), 19, 113-119. Noirtin, C., Boiteux, P., Guillet, P., Dejoux, C., Beaucournu-Saguez, F., & Mouchet, J. (1981). Les simulies, nuisance pour le bétail dans les Vosges: les origines de leur pullulation et les méthodes de lutte. Cahiers orstom, Série Entomologie Médicale et Parasitologie, 19, 101-112. Saguez, F. B., & Rivosecchi, L. (1982). CONTRIBUTO ALLA CONOSCENZA DEI SIMULIDI ITALIANI. XXIV: SULLA PRESENZA NELLE ALPI OCCIDENTALI (VAL D'AOSTA) DI UNA SPECIE DEL GEN. TWINNIA (SUBF. GYMNOPAIDINAE).