Villemant, Claire

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Entomologist, France

Muséum national d’histoire naturelle UMR7205 CNRS-MNHN Department of Systematics & Evolution CP50, Entomologie 45 rue Buffon F-75005 Paris, FRANCE

Tel.: +33-1-40 79 38 41 Fax: +33-1-40 79 36 99 E-mail: villemant@mnhn.fr URL: www.mnhn.fr/oseb

Claire Villemant is Maître de Conférence and curator of the Hymenoptera collection at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Her research, within the team “Origin, Structure and Evolution of Biodiversity” (UMR7205 CNRS-MNHN), is focused on the systematic and biodiversity of parasitoid Hymenoptera (Ichneumonidae and Braconidae) and, more recently, on the biology and expansion of the invasive Asian hornet Vespa velutina in France. She also works since more than two decades on the population dynamics and control of the gypsy moth Lymantria dispar. She is implied in two main research programmes: the ANR Biocosmac (Macrocentrus cingulum as a biological control agent of Ostrinia spp.) and a research project on Vespa velutina biology and invasion, funded by the European Apiculture Programme.

She joined the WG "Integrated Protection in Oak Forests" since its foundation in 1993 and became its convenor in 1997. She organized the 3rd, 4th and 5th meetings of the group between 1998 and 2004 and was the elected as deputy member of the IOBC Wprs council in 2005. She is the liaison officer of the Oak forests’ WG since 2006.

TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS

 * Lacau, S.; Villemant, C.; Delabie, J. H. C. 2004. Typhlomyrmex meire, a remarkable new species endemic to Southern Bahia, Brazil (Formicidae: Ectatomminae). Zootaxa 678: 1-23


 * [[Media:Lacau Villemant & Delabie 2005.pdf|Lacau, S., C. Villemant and J. H. C. Delabie. 2005. Sur l'identité du nomen nudum Typhlomyrmex bruchi Santschi, 1922 (Formicidae, Ectatomminae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 110(1): 39-42. PDF]]