Roger Paul Dechambre

Roger-Paul Dechambre (1935 – 8 November 2016) was a French veterinarian and entomologist .

Career Dechambre attended lhe École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, in 1960 gaining a doctorate on the thesis Aspects Primitifs De L’Elevage Du Mouton . He continued his studies at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie at Paris, gaining in 1970 a doctorate on the thesis Effet de groupe et évolution des tumeurs ascitiques chez la souris .

Roger-Paul Dechambre was the curator at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris à Paris. He produced substantial work on the beetle family Dynastinae.

Described species

Golofa globulicornis (1975) Golofa obliquicornis (1975) Golofa spatha (1989) Hemicyrthus chazeaui (1982)

Hemicyrthus costatus (1982) Hemicyrthus elongatus (1982) Hemicyrthus gutierrezi (1982) Paroryctoderus cornutus (1994)