Roger Naviaux

{{short description|French entomologist}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Roger Naviaux | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape =  | alt = | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date ={{birth date|1926|05|7|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|03|26|1926|03|26|df=y}} | death_place = Domérat, France | death_cause =  | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship =  | nationality =  | fields = | workplaces = | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = | signature =  | signature_type =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Roger Naviaux''' (1926 – 26 March 2016)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Colas|first=Georges|title=In memoriam. Roger Naviaux (1926–2016)|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_2016_num_121_2_2376|journal=Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France|date=2016 |volume=121|issue=2|pages=213–216|language=fr}}</ref> was a French engineer and amateur entomologist best known for his work on beetles.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Dheurle |first=Charles |date=2016 |title=Roger Naviaux, un entomologiste talentueux (1926–2016) |url=https://lentomologiste.fr/wp-content/uploads/lentomologiste_2016_724a.pdf |journal=L'Entomologiste |edition= |publisher=Société entomologique de France |volume=72 |issue=4 |pages=245–249|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250526043808/https://lentomologiste.fr/wp-content/uploads/lentomologiste_2016_724a.pdf |archive-date=26 May 2025 }}</ref> He produced several monographs on the tiger beetle genera ''Collyris'', ''Tricondyla'', ''Derocrania'' and ''Ctenostoma''.

Naviaux was born in Soissons, Aisne, to Lucile née Zappa and Dieudonné Naviaux. His father had served in the infantry and worked in Indochina. Roger grew up in Nice and Levens where he became interested in insects. He went to the Voirn high school, Isère where he lived as a boarder during World War II. He received a mechanical engineering degree from École Violet. He then worked in IBM as a technician but left and worked in ONERA in aeronautical research and was involved in the development of electron microscopes. In the 1960s he moved to Montluçon, Allier to work with the Dunlop tyre company. Here he set up a home and began to establish his beetle collections. He collaborated with the pharmacist and amateur entomologist Michel Rapilly, making collecting trips to various parts of the world. His entomology work came to an end after the death of his wife and he lived in a care home in Montluçon where he died from a stroke. He was buried in Domérat.<ref name=":0" />

Naviaux joined the French Entomological Society after being proposed by Guy Colas and André Descarpentriès.<ref name=":0" /> He described numerous species of beetle. List of some of the species named after him:

* ''Anoxia naviauxi''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Baraud |first=Jacques |date=1989 |title=Révision des Anoxia Castelnau d'Europe et d'Asie, 2e note : le sous-genre Anoxia s. str. [Col. Melolonthidae] |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_1989_num_94_9_17614 |journal=Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France |language=fr |volume=94 |issue=9 |pages=299 |doi=10.3406/bsef.1989.17614|bibcode=1989AnSEF..94..283B }}</ref> * ''Badister naviauxi''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wrase |first=D.W |title=Taxonomische und faunistische Bemerkungen über einige paläarktische Carabiden-Arten(Coleoptera, Carabidae) |url=https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/LBB_0027_1_0337-0366.pdf |journal=Linzer Biol. Beitr. |language=de |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=337–366}}</ref> * ''Brasiella naviauxi''<ref>{{Cite journal |year=2011 |title=Description d'une nouvelle espèce du genre Brasiella Rivalier,1954, d'Equateur (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) |url=https://lasef.org/wp-content/uploads/BSEF/116-4/12-1554_Dheurle.pdf |journal=Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France |volume=116 |issue=4 |pages=495–497|doi=10.3406/bsef.2011.2948 |bibcode=2011AnSEF.116..495D |last1=Dheurles |first1=Charles }}</ref> * ''Gymnopleurus naviauxi''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Montreuil |first=Olivier |date=2009 |title=Gymnopleurus persianus Reitter, 1909, n. stat., et description d'une nouvelle espèce d'Irak (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_2009_num_114_4_2705 |journal=Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France |volume=114 |issue=4 |pages=419–422 |doi=10.3406/bsef.2009.2705|bibcode=2009AnSEF.114..419M }}</ref> * ''Neocollyris naviauxi''<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hirofumi |first1=Sawada |last2=Jürgen |first2=Wiesner |title=Additional new records of tiger beetle species from central China (III) (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277331549 |journal=Entomologische Zeitschrift |volume=113 |issue=8 |pages=240–241}}</ref> * ''Neosantalus naviauxi''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gomy |first=Yves |date=2007 |title=Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Neosantalus Kryzhanovskij, 1972, du Vietnam (Coleoptera, Histeridae) |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_2007_num_112_3_16442 |journal=Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France |volume=112 |issue=3 |pages=335–338 |doi=10.3406/bsef.2007.16442|bibcode=2007AnSEF.112..335G }}</ref> * ''Paraphysodeutera naviauxi''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moravec |first=Jiří |title=New or rare Madagascar tiger beetles—7. Paraphysodeutera naviauxi gen. n. et sp. n. (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) |journal=Folia Heyrovskyana |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=69–74}}</ref> * ''Tetracha naviauxi''<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.3897/zookeys.147.2104 | issue=147 | doi-access=free | title=Tetracha Hope 1838 of the Turks and Caicos Islands (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae) | date=2011 | last1=Davidson | first1=Robert | last2=Ward | first2=Robert D. | last3=Brzoska | first3=David | journal=ZooKeys | pages=85–97 | pmid=22379386 | pmc=3286245 }}</ref>

== Publications == * {{cite book |title=Les Cicindeles de Thailande: etude faunistique (Col. Carabidae) |language=fr |last=Naviaux |first=Roger |publisher=Societe linnéenne de Lyon |location=Lyon |year=1981 }} * {{cite book |title=Les Collyris (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). Complement a la 'Revision du genre Collyris (sensu lato)' et description de nouveaux taxons |language=fr |last=Naviaux |first=R. |publisher=Societe linnéenne de Lyon |location=Lyon |year=1994 }} * {{cite book |title=Les Collyris (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). Revision des Genres et Description de nouveaux Taxons |language=fr |last=Naviaux |first=Roger |publisher=Societe linnéenne de Lyon |location=Lyon |year=1995 |isbn=978-2950551450 }} * {{cite book |title=The Tiger Beetles of Thailand (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) |last1=Naviaux |first1=Roger |last2=Pintratana|first2=A. |publisher=St. Gabriel |location=Thailand |year=2004 |isbn=978-9749226636 }} * {{cite book |title=Tant que voleront les cicindèles |last1=Naviaux |first1=Roger |publisher=Bellier Eds |year=2001 |isbn=2846310270 }}

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