ARNOLD - LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 – 1922 - Travaux

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«Grigore Antipa» 

ARNOLD - LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 – 1922), 

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY 

GABRIELA ANDREI, CORNELIU PANDELE 

« Bien des surprises, j’en suis convaincu sont réservées 

aux travailleurs, pionniers de la Science, explorateurs, 

chercheurs qui sauront fouiller les taillis, sonder les replis du 

sol, arracher à la Nature ses secrets qui Elle livre avec haut de 

facilité à ceux qui savent l’interroger. 

En tous cas, je continuerai dans la mesure de mes 

forces les études que j’ai entreprises, et mes efforts tendront 

toujours à faire connaître au monde savant la faune de la Terre 

hospitalière où je vis heureux depuis tantôt douze ans. Ce sera 

une manière de payer la dette de gratitude que j’ai contractée 

envers la Roumanie.» 

(Arnold Montandon - Broºteni le 30 Octobre 1883) 

Abstract. Arnold L. Montandon (1852-1922) dedicated his entire life to Science. Around 1900 he was 

known as one of the best entomologists-hemipterologists of the world. He studied the insects which he 

received from the furthest countries, describing hundreds of new taxa. He was born in France and settled 

for good in Romania since 1873. He had been studying the flora and fauna of the adoptive country, and 

his papers on Moldova, Muntenia and Dobrogea were among the first in this field. In their chronology, 

the authors emphasize the major contribution of the great self-educated man to the Romanian scientifical 

research. On 11th of April 1905, Arnold Lucien Montandon became Foreign Corresponding Member of 

the Romanian Academy, in the Scientifical Department, for his special merits. 

Résumé. Arnold L. Montandon (1852-1922) a consacré sa vie entière à la Science. Vers 1900 il a été 

connu comme l’un des meilleurs entomologues-hemipterologues du monde. Il a étudié les insectes 

qu’il a reçu des autres pays, décrivant des centaines de nouveaux taxons. Il est né en France et s’établi 

définitivement en Roumanie. Depuis 1873, il a étudié la flore et la faune du pays adoptif, et ses travaux 

sur Moldova, Muntenia et Dobrogea ont été parmi les premiers dans ce domaine. Dans leur 

chronologie, les auteurs soulignent la contribution principale du grand homme autodidacte à la 

recherche scientifique roumaine. Le 11 avril 1905, pour ses mérites spécials, Arnold Lucien 

Montandon est devenu membre correspondant étranger de l’Académie Roumaine, dans le Département 

scientifique. 

Key words: Arnold L. Montandon, entomologist-hemipterologist, new taxa, corresponding member, 

Romanian Academy. 

In this paper we try to bring a modest homage to a great person very fond of 

Science … From the very beginning we want to say that we have a special 

admiration for the self-educated people who succeed in reaching and becoming one 

of the greatest personalities of their time, without having university studies in a 

English translation by Mihaela Barcan Achim. 

Vol. XLIX pp. 479–509 

© Octobre 

2006

480 GABRIELA ANDREI, CORNELIU PANDELE 

certain field or even without university studies. It is about Arnold L. Montandon, 

who dedicated his entire life to Science, being recognized as one of the best 

entomologists of the world, specialized in hemiptera-heteroptera. 

On 26 th of November 2002, 150 years passed since the personality’s birth 

who had become corresponding member of the Romanian Academy on the 11 th of 

April 1905. As Constantin Istrati said in his speech on the candidate’s scientifical 

papers and activities «Montandon nu fãcu studii universitare ºi nici o specialitate în 

ramura ºtiinþelor la o anumitã ºcoalã. Natura, frumuseþea ºi marea varietate a 

faunei entomologice a munþilor noºtri furã dascãlii sãi, iar seriozitatea 

observatorului, preciziunea omului de ºtiinþã, dorul de a colecþiona ºi studia ºi, mai 

departe, de a publica observaþiunile proprii, urmarã de la sine. E un ales autodidact 

(…) format la ºcoala mare a faptelor, a naturii». (Montandon had not university 

studies or specialized courses in a certain branch of science. Nature, beauty and the 

large variety of the entomological fauna of our mountains draw its professors’ 

attention, and the observer’s seriousness, the scientist’s accuracy, the desire of 

collecting, studying and publishing his own observations followed naturally. He is a 

distinguished autodidact (…) trained at the high school of nature and facts). 

As Grigore Antipa’s assistant and collaborator, he fully contributed to the 

development of the institution which we call today “Grigore Antipa” National 

Museum of Natural History of Bucharest. It is not about the period 1896-1907, when 

he actually worked beside Antipa, but also about his huge entomological and 

malacological collections, which belong to the Museum patrimony today. 

In his catalogue from 1964, Igor Sienkiewicz, Montandon’s continuer and his 

first biographer, published several interesting data not only on the Palaearctic 

heteropteran collection but also on the great autodidact’s life and activity, in that 

fruitful period of time of the hemipteran studies, when important personalities 

carried on their activity: Fieber, Iakovlev, Oshanin, Kirkaldy, Schouteden, Signoret, 

Lethierry, Mulsant, Rey, Noualhier, Saunders, Distant, Bärensprung, Poppius, Stál, 

Costa, Flor, as well as the great O. M. Reuter. Montandon was in correspondence 

with all of them, also making different material exchanges. «That was, indeed, a 

Golden Age of Hemipterology, when the number of species described for the Science 

knew a rapid increase». In this paper, Sienkiewicz corrected the errors published by 

some other authors regarding Montandon’s birth and death date. 

In his book dedicated to the development of education in Romania, published 

in 1971, Constantin Motaº wrote: 

«Dintre strãinii aºezaþi în þara noastrã ºi care s-au identificat complet cu 

interesele ei sînt de menþionat doi: Maurice Jaquet de la Geneva, elev al lui Carl 

Vogt (1817-1895) venit în þarã la îndemnul lui Paul Bujor (1862-1952). Jaquet a 

fost preparator ºi apoi ºef de lucrãri al chirurgului Toma Ionescu (1860-1926). Al 

doilea, Arnold L. Montandon (1850-1922), originar din Besançon, entomolog 

eminent, a ajuns membru corespondent al Academiei Române ºi foarte apreciat de 

Gr. Antipa, al cãrui colaborator a fost la Muzeul de istorie naturalã din Bucureºti. 

A adus contribuþii însemnate la progresul entomologiei» (From the foreigners who 

settled in our country and who completely identified with its interests we can 

mention Maurice Jaquet from Geneve, Carl Vogt’s student (1817-1895), who came 

here at Paul Bujor’s advice (1862-1952). The second is Arnold L. Montandon 

(1850-1922), from Besançon, eminent entomologist, who became corresponding 

member of the Romanian Academy and a very appreciated person by Grigore

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Antipa, whose collaborator was at the Museum of Natural History of Bucharest. He 

made his contributions to the development of entomology). 

«In România, primele cercetãri asupra heteropterelor sunt cunoscute încã din 

ultimele douã decenii ale secolului trecut (sec. 19, n. t.) ºi sunt datorate ilustrului 

savant A. L. Montandon; tot din aceastã perioadã avem ºi primele referiri despre 

prezenþa în þara noastrã a genurilor Aelia ºi Eurygaster …», remarked C. Popov in 

his paper from 1972, where the data published by Montandon in 1885 (b), 1886 and 

1907 were the starting point (In Romania, the first studies on heteropterans are 

known since the last two decades of the last century (19 th century, a. n.) and are due 

to the distinguished scientist A. L. Montandon; also from that period we have the first 

references on the presence of genera Aelia and Eurygaster in our country …) 

«Cu toate cã nu fãcuse studii universitare, A. L. Montandon avea cunoºtinþe 

temeinice de entomologie; din notele incomplete ale memoriilor lui reiese cã venise 

în þara noastrã pregãtit pentru studiul insectelor» (Hower A. L. Montandon has not 

universitary studies he had throughly entomological knowledges. From his 

incomplete notes results that he came in our country prepared to study insects) 

(Pandele, 1974). 

In Istoria ºtiinþelor în România. Biologia (The history of sciences in Romania. 

Biology), at the pages 109-110 we can read the following ideas: «În “Buletinul 

Societãþii române de ºtiinþe” gãsim numeroase articole despre hemiptere ºi probleme 

entomologice generale, scrise de francezul A. L. Montandon (1852-1922)…»; «În 

aceastã epocã a Muzeului de istorie naturalã se realizeazã valoroase colecþii 

ºtiinþifice datoritã zelului unei serii de eminenþi autodidacþi care pun bazele 

cercetãrii faunistice a unor grupe variate: A. L. Montandon asupra hemipterelor, 

Eduard Fleck despre lepidoptere ºi coleoptere (1898-1932), Robert Dombrowski 

(1868-1932) publicã lucrarea fundamentalã asupra pãsãrilor noastre Ornis 

Romaniae (1912)…» (In “Buletinul Societãþii române de ºtiinþe” there are numerous 

articles on hemipterans and on the general entomological problems, written by the 

French A. L. Montandon (1852-1922)…; In this era of the Museum of Natural 

History, valuable scientifical collections are made due to some prominent selfeducate 

persons’fervour, who creat the foundation of the faunistic research in 

different animal groups: A. L. Montandon, on hemipterans, Eduard Fleck, on 

lepidopterans and coleopterans (1898-1938), Robert Dombrowski (1868-1932) 

publishes his important paper on our birds, Ornis Romaniae (1912)…) (Codreanu, 

1975). 

In 1977, at Oradea, in the heading In memoriam of the journal Nymphaea, the 

entomologist Mircea Paina made a brief presentation of A. L. Montandon’s 

personality on the occasion of 125 years since his birth. 

In 1984, Béla Kis, Montandon’s successor in hemipterology, wrote in Fauna 

României (Romanian Fauna): «În urma studiilor celor doi entomologi de renume 

mondial – G. Horvath ºi A. L. Montandon – heteropterele din þara noastrã 

aparþineau, încã de la începutul secolului al 20-lea, celor mai bine cunoscute ordine 

de insecte.» (As a result of the two world known entomologists’ studies, G. Horvath 

and A. L. Montandon, heteropterans of our country were the best known insect 

orders, since the beginning of the 20 th century). 

Prof. Al. Grossu wrote, in 1995, in his memory volume, that Licherdopol and 

Montandon were «…singurii care au publicat înainte de 1918 diferite lucrãri 

despre gasteropodele din Muntenia, Moldova ºi Dobrogea», (…were the only 

persons which published different papers on the gastropods from Muntenia,


Moldova and Dobrogea, before 1918) and then, referring only to Montandon, he 

said «lucrarea sa capitalã, apãrutã în 1906 (…) un fel de inventar, catalog-listã al 

tuturor gasteropodelor colectate de el, amintind ºi localitãþile de unde au fost 

adunate» (his chief paper, published in 1906 (…) a kind of inventory, listed 

catalogue of all gastropods collected by him, also mentioning the collecting 

localities) (Andrei, 2005). 

In Istoria biologiei în date (The History of Biology with data), published in 

1996, in the chapter dedicated to Entomology, Matilda Lãcãtuºu underlines A. L. 

Montandon’s contribution, considering him «unul dintre precursorii entomologiei 

româneºti» (one of the forerunners of the Romanian entomology), together with 

Aristide Caradja, Constantin Hormuzaki and Eduard Fleck, his contemporaries. 

Besides he was of French origin and had come in Romania since his juvenile years, 

we found out that he published his papers on heteropterans in “Buletinul Societãþii 

de ªtiinþe” (Bulletin of the Science Society) from Bucharest, and his scientifical 

activity lasted 40 years «aducând o mare contribuþie la cunoaºterea faunei din 

România» (having a large contribution to the knowledge of the Romanian fauna). It 

is also mentioned that he received «ca specialist renumit» (as a well-known 

specialist) material for study from further continents and «ca rezultat al activitãþii 

sale a lãsat o valoroasã colecþie de Heteroptere, aflatã astãzi la Muzeul “Grigore 

Antipa” » (as a result of his activity he made a valuable heteropteran collection, 

today preserved in “Grigore Antipa” Museum). 

In 2005, on the ocassion of 100 years celebration since Montandon was 

appointed Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy, a large article 

dedicated to the naturalist’s biological view was published in Galaþi (Pandele, 2005). 

Even if at least ten books and notes were published during the last decades, 

entirely dedicated to the great naturalist, few people know the importance of his 

contribution today, not only by the 400 new described taxa, by over 200 papers 1 

published in the most known periodical journals, the richness of his entomological 

and malacological collections, but also by his entire activity, always for the benefit 

of Science, Nature and his Adoptive Country. He was the member of some of the 

most famous scientifical societies and collaborated with the great museums of the 

world, as Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle de Paris, Museo Civico di Storia 

Naturale di Genova, Musée National Hongrois, Muséum entomologique de Berlin, 

Museo di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino, U. S. 

National Museum of Natural History etc. (Fig. 1). 

As Igor Sienkiewicz wrote, although Montandon did not participated to any 

expedition «his prodigious activity he built mostly on the material he received from 

dozens of people from all continents, with whom Montandon kept a vast 

correspondence. Some were distinguished scientists who co-operated with him; 

others, collectors or explorers who set foot in some of the wildest countries of the 

world, sent whole entomological treasures to the Bucharest worker, who based on 

them described the many exotic species that bear Montandon’s name. (…) His 

works gained A. L. Montandon a world wide reputation in the field of both aquatic 

and terrestrial Heteroptera, Palaearctic as well as Neotropical (Indo-Malayan and 

Australian). His discoveries refer to such different families as Naucoridae, 

Belostomatidae, Nepidae, Ranatridae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Tingidae, Coreidae, 

Pentatomidae, Cydnidae, Plataspidae, etc., etc. » (Sienkiewicz, op. cit.). 

Montandon’s name is bounded by the first studies on the fauna of Moldova, 

Muntenia and Dobrogea. We found the comment in “Istoricul cercetãrilor”


(Research History) in many volumes of Fauna României, from the very first 

volume, Îndrumãtor: Protozoare, Viermi, Artropode (Guide Book: Protozoans, 

Worms, Arthropods), published in 1951. We mention some of them, after the 

publishing year order: Panin, 1952; Grossu, 1956; Popescu-Gorj, Niculescu, 

Alexinschi, 1958; Knechtel & Popovici-Bîznoºeanu, 1959; Fuhn, 1960; Fuhn & 

Vancea, 1961; Panin & Sãvulescu, 1961; Grossu, 1962; Niculescu, 1963, 1965; 

Cîrdei & Bulimar, 1965; Dobreanu & Manolache, 1969; Niculescu & König, 1970; 

Kis, Nagler, Mândru, 1970 and others. 

All references to the three provinces, published in French in the famous 

periodical journal of the time, undoubtedly contributed to the knowledge of 

Romania abroad. 

The fifty years lived in this country are years of an intense activity. It was a 

rich life, with numerous studies on Nature and men, always searching for the Truth, 

always in the benefit of Science and of his Adoptive Country. Here it is his brief 

characterization made by Constantin Istrati, in his speech at the Romanian Academy 

on 11 th of April 1905: «Montandon e o fire deschisã, o inimã largã, observator ºi 

luptãtor ales, pasionat entomolog, ºi un convins ºi încercat filoromân» (Montandon 

is an opened hearted person, a special observer and fighter, a passionate 

entomologist, a categorical and experienced philo-Romanian (Analele Academiei, 

1904-1905). 

* 

For mentioning as many data as possible we decided to use their chronological 

presentation. Because an A. L. Montandon Bibliography (Andrei, 1993) was already 

published, here we mentioned especially the papers referring to Romania. Where it 

was necessary, we added some titles which were omitted or were published with 

incomplete bibliographical notes in “Bibliography” (marked by *) as well as papers 

referring to the foreign fauna, with a certain significance in our comment. 

Chronology 

He was born on 26th of November 1852, in France, at Besançon2 . He was the 

first of Henri-Louis Montandon (1821-1884) and Marie-Lina Wuilleumier’s (1825- 

1918) five children. His father was born at Plan-du-Four (Travers) and was the 

descendant of the old family of Montandons, who had come in Franche-Comté and in 

Switzerland around 1200. When he settled at Besançon around 1848-1850, he was a 

very well-known watchmaker and inventor in this field, his name being mentioned in 

the specialized papers, as Dictionnaire des grands-horlogers. Marie-Lina 

Wuilleumier was born at Besançon, where Wuilleumiers practiced watchmaking 

since the beginning of the 19th century (F.-J. Montandon, 1913; Andrei, 2006). 

The origin of the family and of the name of Montandon are bound by the 

locality Montandon from Doubs Department (France), attested by a document from 

1136 (Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Suisse, 1928). «Comme chaque 

nation, chaque famille a ses légendes, plus ou moins intéressantes, plus ou moins 

vraisemblables, mais toujours dignes de retenir un moment l’attention, avant de 

faire place à l’histoire (…). Selon la tradition, les Montandon descendraient 

d’Albigeois3 qui se seraient réfugiés sur les hauts plateaux du Jura dans la première 

moitié du XIIIe siècle» (Montandon, F.-J. op. cit.). From the second half of the 14th 

century, Montandons were also mentioned in Switzerland, in Locle region, where 

they would receive the nobiliary title of “Bourgeois de Valangin” in 1502. In 1913 

Montandons were present not only in France and Switzerland but also in England,


Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Italy, Romania, Asia Minor, Egypt, USA, Canada, Costa- 

Rica, Santo Domingo, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina (Andrei, 1998). 

As we have found in F.-J. Montandon’s monograph paper: «Dans les 

montagnes neuchâteloises, l’on a appliqué aux Montandon une expression assez 

courante: bon pied, bon oeil. Les Montandon ont toujours eu bon pied et bon oeil» 

(F.-J. Montandon, op. cit.; Andrei, 1998). 

He spent his childhood in Jura Mountains. As he reminded himself in one of 

his papers and as we found in Marcel Montandon’s original notes, his grandfather, 

Philibert Wuilleumier, from Tramelan, was the first who raised his interest in natural 

history collections (Andrei, 2006). 

1872 – he left Besançon, before reaching 20 years old, and came to Bucharest. 

1873 – he fixed his residence in Romania. From his son’s, Marcel, notes we 

found that: «… c’était un ami suisse qui l’avait engagé à venir en Roumanie». 

Before leaving France, the young Arnold had worked at Mairot-Détrey Bank from 

Besançon, for a short period of time, this experience being useful to him when he 

was employed clerk in a Financial Society, after he had come in Bucharest (Andrei, 

2006). 

«În memoriile sale intitulate “Un demi-siècle de sejour en Roumanie”, 

lucrare în manuscris, din care mai sunt doar fragmente disparate, el povesteºte cum 

îmbarcându-se la Baziaº pe un vapor al Societãþii Donau Dampschiffahrer a 

coborât pe frumoasa Dunãre albastrã cântatã de germani» (In his memories 

entitled “Un demi-siècle de sejour en Roumanie”, in manuscript, from which only 

disparate fragments preserved, he was telling how he went down on the beautiful 

Blue Danube, sung by Germans, after he had embarked at Baziaº on a ship of Donau 

Dampschiffahrer Society (Pandele 1974) 4 . 

Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Suisse, which used as source 

F.- J. Montandon’s monograph paper from 1913, mentions 1873 as the year when he 

settled in Romania. In 1993, Andrei & Serafim discussed widely upon this date, 

analysing several sources, among them being Montandon’s foreword at the 

catalogue of the coleopteran collection which he was to donate it to the future 

“Grigore Antipa” Museum, on 30 th of October 1883: «… mes efforts tendrons 

toujours à faire connaître au monde savant la faune de la Terre hospitalière, où je 

vis heureux depuis tantôt douze ans.». Taking into consideration only A. L. 

Montandon’s assertions from 1876 and 1883, the authors think that he came in 

Romania at the end of 1871 or at the beginning of 1872. Marcel Montandon’s notes 

regarding his father finally clarify things, fixing this date in 1872 (Andrei, 2006). 

1874 – He married Césarine G. Giger from Soleure, born in Geneva, who he 

met a year before, at a ball of the Swiss Society from Bucharest (Andrei, 2006). 

1872–1877: he lived in Bucharest. 

In a certain moment, the financial society where he worked went bankrupt 

and he had to find another job. Carol I, then Prince, just bought an estate in northern 

Moldova, in Bistriþa valley, at Broºteni and searched for a deputy administrator. 

Private secretary of the Prince Carol, Louis Basset, of Swiss origin, from Vaud, 

offered this job to Montandon. The idea of the retiring up in the Carpathians did not 

scared the young people, «L’idée d’aller s’enterrer au fond des Carpathes, à la 

frontière de Bucovine et de Hongrie n’effraya pas mes parents, au contraire: ils 

étaient assez jurassiens pour aimer la montagne; et c’était la perspective de la vie 

libre, la vie aisée, du grand propriétaire terrien qui s’offrait à eux» wrote Marcel in 

his Memories (Andrei, 2006).


1875 (31 st of August/12 th of September) – his first son was born in Bucharest 

– Marcel-Henri (1875-1941), who would become men of letters, well-known in 

France and Germany (F.-J. Montandon, op. cit.). That time, the Montandons lived in 

Puþul-cu-Plopi Str. (Andrei, 2006). 

Arnold Montandon’s first papers are published in Feuille des Jeunes 

Naturalistes. Paris, from 1876, than in 1878, 1879, 1880. Montandon asserted that 

the collaborators of the journal, especially its founder, Ernest Dollfus, made him to 

develop «l’amour de l’étude des sciences naturelles…» (Montandon, 1878). 

1876 – he became corresponding member of Société d’Etudes Scientifiques 

d’Angers. In the meeting of 9 th of April 1876 Montandon, «naturaliste à Bukarest 

(Roumanie)» was listed to be proposed member and «le vote sur l’admission de ces 

nouveaux membres aura également lieu à la prochaine séance». In the list from 

1876-1877 of the members of this society, Montandon is included for three 

scientifical fields: Entomologie (Coléoptères), Conchyliologie and Botanique. 

1877 – also in Bucharest, the second son, René-Jules, was born, that one who 

would become map maker engineer, explorer of Costa Rica, leaving Bucharest in 

1898 and settling in America (F.-J. Montandon, op. cit.). Montandon’s address, 

mentioned in “Liste d’Echanges” (Entomologie – Coléoptères), in no 76 of Feuille 

des Jeunes Naturalistes, published on the 1 st of February 1877, was Fundãtura 

Dulgherilor 13, Bucharest. On 19 th of May 1877, Marcel Montandon noted the street 

Sf. Constantin as his brother’s René birth place (Andrei, 2006). 

1877 November – Montandon went in Moldova, at Broºteni, as administrator 

of the Royal House Estate. In February 1878, in no. 87 of Feuille des Jeunes 

Naturalistes, also at Coléoptères, it is mentioned the address «Brostenii, prin 

Folticeni, Roumanie» (Broºteni, through Fãlticeni, Romania). 

In the spring of 1878 Césarine together with her two sons, Marcel and René, 

left Bucharest for Moldova. They would reach Broºteni, after an agitated and 

tiresome travel. Marcel was less than three years old, and René was not one year old, 

yet. The last railway station was 100 km far from Broºteni, so, the last part of the trip 

was made by cart (Andrei, 2006). 

1878 – 1880 – he published Brostenii et la Vallée de la Bistriza and Brostenii 

et la Fôret de la Bistriza (Montandon, 1878, 1879 b, 1880 a, b, c). 

1878 – 1885. Initiation period in molluscs. The young A. L. Montandon was 

in correspondence with the abbot D. Dupuy, «un nom bien connu parmi les 

malacologistes de son temps, surtout grâce à son grand ouvrage “Histoire naturelle 

des Mollusques terrestres et d’eau douce qui vivent en France” (1847 – 1852). Ainsi 

que l’on peut déduire de la correspondence, D. Dupuy a été l’un des initiateurs de 

Montandon dans l’étude des mollusques» (Andrei & Pãunescu, 1982). In 1906, 

Montandon himself wrote about what the great malacologist meant to him: «C’est 

grâce à l’abbé Dupuy que j’ai commencé, il y a longtemps déja, de m’occuper des 

coquilles terrestres et d’eau douce (c’est lui qui avait nommé la plupart des espèces 

qui ont été signalées dans mes publications de 1880) …» (Montandon, 1906 b). 

1880 – he published Souvenirs de Valachie (Montandon, 1880 d). In the list 

of the members of Société d’Etudes Scientifiques d’Angers he was included as 

«naturaliste à Cruce, domaine princier de Brostenii, plasa Muntele (Moldavie) ». 

1883 – he became Knight of the Crown Order (Analele Academiei Române 

1904-1905; Pandele, 1974; Andrei & Serafim op. cit.). 

In October 1883 he already was member of Société Française d’Entomologie 

(Andrei & Serafim op. cit.)


1883, in autumn – he left Broºteni (Moldova). «Comme l’eau, le temps a 

coulé, lentement ou trop vite, et les pierres du fond sont encore là, comme les 

souvenirs qui restent gravés dans la mémoire. Sept années se sont écoulées depuis 

mon départ de Bucarest….» wrote Montandon in 1884, after he left behind 

Moldova, the place were he had spent the most beautiful years of his youth, and 

added sadly: «Je viens de quitter ce coin de pays il y a quelques mois à peine…. 

peut-être pour toujours». 

1884 – 1888 – temporary settled in Sinaia (Prahova Valley), also as 

administrator of the Royal Estate; he made the first trips in Dobrogea. 

1884 (1885) – the book Souvenirs de Moldavie – Le Domaine Royal de 

Brosteni was published, including a complete description of the area from the 

mineralogical, petrographical, geographical, floral, faunal and ethnographical point 

of view. It offers a pleasant and educational reading which addresses both to the 

scientists and the tourists. 

1885, 2 nd of April – In the meeting of Société d’Etudes Scientifiques d’Angers 

«M. Gallois présente, de la part de M. Arnold MONTANDON, une centaine 

d’espèces d’hémiptères, fort bien préparés, recueillis, pour la plupart, en Moldavie 

par notre collègue. L’Assemblée décide que ces insectes seront donnés au musée 

d’histoire naturelle d’Angers comme premier noyau d’une collection 

hémiptérologique, et que des remerciements seront adressés à M. Montandon». 

1885 – at Caen he published two papers on the Romanian fauna: Description 

d’un Hémiptère-Hétéroptère nouveau, where he described Camptobrochis putoni, 

dedicated to the great August Puton and Hémiptères - Hétéroptères de Moldavie. 

Description de deux nouveaux Eurygaster. 

In 1885 his two sons, Marcel, ten years old, and René, eight years old, left 

Romania for going to study in France, at Besançon (Andrei, 2006). 

1886 – in Revue d’Entomologie the papers Hémiptères-Hétéroptères de la 

Dobroudja is published. On the entomological fauna of Dobrogea, Montandon 

asserted that it was almost completely unknown, and as regards this region, which 

had become Romanian territory after the 1877 Independence War, is unfairly 

underestimated by the Western Europe, because of the stories, full of errors made by 

some travellers who never went there. This idea would be resumed and commented 

widely by Montandon in the paper mentioned further. 

1887 – he published Excursions en Dobroudja (Fig. 2). The collecting lists 

include over 470 coleopteran species, 86 homopterans, some tens of molluscs, etc. 

Heteropterans were the subject of a separated paper, published at Caen, in 1886. 

1888 – he left Sinaia, at the physicians’ advice. Just in Excursions en 

Dobroudja, Montandon says, describing the beach of Mangalia: «La faune y 

paraissait plus riche et d’un caractère plus méridional, de sorte que j’y prolongeai 

mon séjour aussi longtemps que possible. Il m’arrivait souvent de faire deux bains 

de mer par jour et, entre temps, étendu à plat ventre sur la plage à la recherche 

d’insectes sous les débris d’algues rejetés par le flot, j’emmagasinais, à l’instar des 

lézards, de chauds rayons de soleil qui rétablissaient, peu à peu, ma santé ébranlée 

par les hivers trop longs et la constante humidité des Carpathes.» (Montandon, 

1887). 

1889 – coming back to Bucharest, he moved in 22 Viilor Str., in Filaret 

district; he became Administrative Director of the Th. Mandrea et C ie Footwear 

Factory.


1892 – in Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France (24 Février p. 46 et 

9 Novembre p. 239), J. de Joannis published «deux listes assez importantes des 

lepidoptères provenant de mes recherches personnelles sur plusieurs points de la 

Roumanie», as Montandon wrote in the foreword of his paper from 1900 on 

lepidopterans (Montandon, 1900 b). 

1893, 4 th of March – he became member in Société Entomologique de 

Belgique. 

1893, 8 th of March – he became member of Société Entomologique de 

France. In the list of those accepted to be members of this society we can read: 

“M. A. L. Montandon – directorul Fabricii Th. Mandrea et C ie , str. Viilor – Filarete 

Bucarest (Roumanie) Hémipt., pr. Hétéroptères”. 

1893 – in a note added to Montandon’s paper, published in Proceedings 

National Museum, we can read C. V. Riley’s words, Honorary Curator of the 

Department of Insects: «I have the honor to submit for publication the 

accompanying “Notes on North American Hemiptera Heteroptera”, by Mr. 

Montandon, of Bucharest, Roumania. The notes are of authoritative value and Mr. 

Montandon has based them to a certain extent upon Museum material which I have 

sent over to him from time to time.» (Montandon, 1893). 

1895, 8 th of February – Dr. Grigore Antipa submitted an application to the 

Ministry for creating an assistant job (Andrei, 1981). 

1895 – the paper Contributions à la Faune Entomologique de la Roumanie. 

Nouvelles espèces d’Hémiptères – Hétéroptères was published by two different 

periodical journals. Its date was “Bucarest, Oct. - Nov. 1895” (Montandon, 1895 

and 1895 bis). 

1896, 1 st of October – Montandon was employed at the Museum of Zoology, 

as Antipa’s assistant, with a monthly salary of 150 lei (Andrei, 1981). Nine years 

later, on 11 th of April, at the meeting of the Romanian Academy, Dr. Constantin 

Istrati said in «expunerea asupra scrierilor ºi activitãþii ºtiinþifice a d-lui A. L. 

Montandon, propus de Secþiunea ºtiinþificã spre a fi ales membru corespondent 

strãin» (the exposition on A. L. Montandon’s scientifical activity, proposed by the 

Scientifical Department to be elected foreign corresponding member): «Ceeace face 

multã cinste acestei firi de elitã, e cã continuã a-ºi cultiva specialitatea, adesea 

nesigur de ziua de mâne, cãci trãeºte modest ºi greu din lucrul sãu, având o 

poziþiune foarte puþin retribuitã pe lângã Muzeul nostru de istorie naturalã» (What 

makes this noble soul to be honoured by us is that he continues to learn more in his 

field, sometimes not sure for the coming day, because he has a very modest and 

heavy life, having a badly paid position in our Museum of Natural History (Analele 

Academiei Române, 1904-1905). 

1896–1900 – It is the period when Montandon studied especially 

orthopterans. He collected material, mostly from Bucegi Massif, and from Sinaia, 

Doftana, surroundings of Bucharest, Comana, Mãcin, etc. (Vasiliu, 1957). 

1896 –1907 – he worked at the Museum of Zoology from Bucharest 5 as 

Grigore Antipa’s assistant and, together with his director, has a very serious activity 

in organizing the new museum (Onciul, 1923), today, “Grigore Antipa” National 

Museum of Natural History. 

1897 - A. L. Montandon’s admission in Societatea Românã de ªtiinþe – 

Secþiunea ªtiinþelor Naturale (Romanian Society of Sciences – Natural Sciences 

Department).


1898 and 1899 – in London, two Malcolm Burr’s papers are published, 

regarding Romanian orthopterans, based on the material collected by Montandon 

and Burr. After in the first paper he dedicated to Montandon a species (Callimenus 

montandoni), in the second one, the English entomologists wrote: «I take this 

opportunity of expressing my thanks to M. Montandon for the material he has sent 

me from time to time, and for his assistance in every way in compiling this paper, as 

well as for his courtesy and hospitality during my brief sojourn at Bucharest». 

1899 – Ministry of Estate enabled Montandon to make a study on the 

Acrididae of the Danube Delta, which damaged a lot that period, and a collection of 

these orthopterans, in all their development stages. In June 1899, Montandon 

studied the areas Sulina, Sf. Gheorghe and Letea. (Vasiliu, op. cit.). Injurious insects 

and other causes which diminished the cultures were some of his concerns and 

dedicated them several pages. 

1900 – he published Les Acridiens du Delta du Danube (Montandon, 1900 a) 

in Buletinul Societãþii de Sciinþe. Besides Locusta migratoria, Montandon reported 

the presence of the second injurious locust, Dociostaurus maroccanus, in the 

surroundings of Mãcin locality (Knechtel & Popovici-Bîznoºeanu, 1959). In his 

study, he foresaw the possibility of the biological control of the locusts, considering 

some birds as the storks and Rose-coloured starlings (Pastor roseus L.) some 

efficient means. 

1900 – in Buletinul Societãþii de Sciinþe he published Contributions à la 

Faune Entomologique de la Roumanie (Lepidoptera), a paper which included 91 

species, eight of them new to the Romanian fauna. Just in the second page we found 

that «Les déterminations de ces insectes ont été faites en grande partie par des 

specialistes: M. M. J. de Joannis, Edouard Fleck et Aristide de Caradja», to whom 

Montandon thanked further: «je saisis avec empressement cette occasion pour 

témoigner ici à ces savants confrères en entomologie, toute ma reconnaissance et 

leur adresser mes plus sincères remerciements pour leur gracieux concours.» 

(Montandon, 1900 b). 

1900 – in Buletinul Societãþii de Sciinþe he published Contributions à la Faune 

Entomologique de la Roumanie. Hemiptera-Homoptera (Montandon, 1900 c). 

1902 – in Buletinul Societãþii de Sciinþe he published Notes additionnelles 

aux communications de M. Paul Born sur les Carabes Roumains. In the same year, 

in a malacological paper, I. P. Licherdopol thanked to Montandon for his unselfish 

kindness offering him a large number of specimens. 

1903 – St. Zottu published a list of orthopterans in Buletinul Societãþii de 

Sciinþe, most of the species being collected by Montandon, some of them reported 

for the first time in Romania. 

1903, 21 st of September – of Prof. C. I. Istrati’s own initiative the exhibition 

“Romanian Association for science development and distribution” was opened, 

which lasted till the 19 th of October of the same year, and it was visited by high 

personalities: Carol I, ministers, etc. and by a numerous public. Two years later, 

during Montandon’s acceptance meeting as member of the Romanian Academy, 

also Constantin Istrati said about him that: «La expoziþiunea Asociaþiunii române 

pentru rãspândirea ºi înaintarea ºtiinþelor din 1903 a obþinut pentru frumoasa sa 

colecþiune medalia de aur» (At the exhibition “Romanian Association for science 

development and distribution” from 1903 he got the golden meddle for his beautiful 

collection) (Analele Academiei 1904-1905; Pandele, 1997).


In their paper from 1985, based only on archive documents, Marinescu and 

Ionescu underlined: «Au sein de la IV-e section – Anthropologie, Zoologie, 

Botanique – le diplôme d’honneur est obtenu par le Musée d’Histoire naturelle de 

Bucarest et Grigore Antipa reçoit la médaille d’or. Le préparateur du musée, R. 

Dombrowski, reçoit, pour les pièces réalisées, la medaille d’argent et l’intendant 

Constantin Danescu, une mention», but they did not mention Montandon, probably 

because of the absence of some documents. 

1904, 6 th of February – Montandon’s hemipteran-heteropteran collection, as 

well as his specialized library were bought by the Ministry of Culture and Public 

Education and donated to the Museum. The collection consisted in 4,950 species 

represented by 22,552 specimens, 316 of them being type specimens, and the library 

has 764 volumes and 15 journal series and different periodicals (Marinescu & 

Ionescu op.cit.). Regarding heteropteran collection, Antipa declared later that it is 

«una dintre cele mai bune colecþiuni din lume» (one of the best collections of the 

world) (Antipa, 1923). Comparing these data on the collection with those from the 

original inventory, published by Andrei in 1981 (inventory whose vanished 

foreword indicated undoubtedly the exact date), we can observe that they are 

identical, with a little exception, i.e. 4,954 species reported by Montandon in the 

original inventory, not 4,950. Because on the last page of the original document 

Montandon wrote: «Collection et Bibliothèque se trouvent dans une grande armoire 

vitrée» we are sure that it is about just the inventory of the collection bought by the 

Ministry, in 1904 (Fig. 3). 

We think that an original list 6 , written by Montandon, including the 

specialized publications which he had at a time (the last booked titles being made in 

1903), represents just the titles present in his library, which he sold to the Ministry 

later, together with the heteropteran collection, at the beginning of 1904. Making 

only a numerical comparison between this list with the data published by Marinescu 

and Ionescu, the results are very close. We hope that our future studies will confirm 

our hypothesis, the more so as in the Museum Library there are most of the authors 

included in the above-mentioned list. 

1905, 11 th of April – he became Foreign corresponding member of the 

Romanian Academy – Scientifical Department. He was elected with 22 “pro” and 3 

“against” votes by 25 voters. Dr. Constantin Istrati is that one who read «expunerea 

asupra scrierilor ºi activitãþii ºtiinþifice a d-lui A. L. Montandon, propus de 

Secþiunea ªtiinþificã spre a fi ales membru corespondent strãin» 7 (the speech on A. 

L. Montandon’s papers and scientifical activity, proposed by the Scientifical 

Department to become foreign corresponding member). After the presentation of the 

main events of the self-educated naturalist’s life and work, of the well-known 

specialized journals where he had published, pointing out his wonderful character, 

Dr. C. Istrati ended this way: «În ce priveºte (…) Hemiptera, d-sa a ajuns o 

adevãratã autoritate. Fructele cãlãtoriilor depãrtate culese de naturaliºti englezi, 

francezi etc., (…) sunt trimise de British Museum, de Museum d’histoire naturelle, 

etc., lui Montandon la Bucureºti, spre a fi determinate. Trebuie sã fim fericiþi, 

Domnilor Colegi, ca în astfel de împrejurãri sã-l alipim Academiei ca membru 

corespondent strãin. Vom rãsplãti astfel munca sa în cunoaºterea unei pãrþi a 

faunei române» (As regards (…) Hemiptera he became a real authority. The “fruits” 

of the long trips, picked up by English, French and other naturalists (…) are sent by 

the British Museum, by the Muséum d’histoire naturelle, etc. to Montandon in 

Bucharest, for being identified. We have to be happy, dear colleagues, that under


such circumstances, we join him to the Academy, as foreign corresponding member. 

Thus, we will reward his work for the knowledge of a part of the Romanian fauna). 

I. Kalinderu, the chairman of the meeting, announced in the end that «propunerea de 

alegere întrunind douã treimi, d-l A. L. Montandon a fost ales membru 

corespondent strãin în Secþiunea ºtiinþificã» (election proposal being agreed by two 

thirds, Mr A. L. Montandon was elected foreign corresponding member in the 

Scientifical Department). It is worth mentioning that, within the same meeting, 

several personalities were elected by the Academy as active or corresponding 

members. Today, they are very well known: D. Onciul, L. Mrazec, the General 

C. I. Brãtianu, Sextil Puºcariu a.s.o. Last but one candidate proposed by the 

Scientifical Department was Emil Racoviþã, of 35 years old, that time deputy 

director at the Arago Marine Laboratory from Banyuls-sur-Mer. He was elected 

Romanian corresponding member, with 25 „pro“ and 1 „against“, by 26 voters. 

1905 – he published Notes supplémentaires pour la faune nevroptérologique 

de la Roumanie in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe. 

He was decorated with Steaua României (Star of Romania) (Montandon F.-J., 

op. cit.). We do not know exactly the date of this event, yet, which we place, for the 

time being, between 1905-1913 8 . 

1906, 6 th of June – in Bucharest the opening of the “General Exhibition of 

Romania” (also named “Jubilee National Exhibition”) which marked three events: 

40 reign years of the King Carol I, 25 years since the proclamation of the Romanian 

Kingdom, and 1,800 years since the emperor Traian’s colonization in Dacia. The 

official who had to organize the exhibition park was Ion N. Lahovari, Minister of the 

Estate, and the general inspector of the exhibition was the savant Constantin Istrati, 

doctor in chemistry and medicine in Paris, member of the Romanian Academy 

(Andrei, M.-D. 2006). The Museum of Natural History of Bucharest, by his 

officials, Gr. Antipa, R. Dombrowski, A. L. Montandon and Popa Burcã, 

participated intensively to the organization of the great exhibition, displayed on the 

place where „Carol Park” was to be made on this occasion. Grigore Antipa 

discussed permanently with the general inspector of the exhibition, Dr. Constantin 

Istrati. Together with Dombrowski, he made the plans of the zoological park and the 

exhibition dedication to the Romanian fishfarms, and «…le musée y présenta une 

collection de 11 espèces de mammifères, 46 oiseaux, 7 amphibiens et reptiles, 22 

espèces de poissons, insectes nouveaux et rares de la faune de Roumanie, des 

publications. Séparément, Arnold L. Montandon exposa une collection d’insectes au 

pavillion «Mines et Carrières» (Marinescu, Ionescu op. cit.) (Fig. 4). 

1906 – in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe he published Notes sur la Faune 

Entomologique de la Roumanie (Coleoptera) (Montandon, 1906 a). In this paper, 

dated «Bucarest, Janvier 1906», Montandon presents a division of Romanian in 

regions: Carpathian, sub-Carpathian, plains, hill of Moldavia and so on, where he 

marked each collecting place, when case indicating the “district” or the nearby areas 

of a more important locality. 


Malacologique de la Roumanie (Montandon, 1906 b). 

1907 – in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe he published Contributions à la 

Faune Entomologique de la Roumanie. Hémiptères- Hétéroptères (Montandon, 

1907 a). 

1907 – in Hungary it is published Notes sur les Holoptilidae* (Montandon, 

1907 b).


1907, April – Montandon’s last signature on paylist of the Museum (Andrei, 

1981) 9 . 


Entomologique de la Roumanie. Additions au Catalogue des Coléoptères 

(Montandon, 1908). The paper, dated «Bucarest, Mars 1908», is very interesting 

because it includes his thoughts on some forerunners’ papers, especially those of 

Lamarck, who was very much admired by him, besides the about 500 new forms for 

the Romanian fauna. 

1909 – in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe he published Les pseudoscorpions de 

Roumanie, representing the list of these arachnids collected from Bucharest, 

Comana, Sinaia, Azuga, Mãcin, Zorleni (Montandon, 1909 a). 

1909 – in Hungary he published the paper Nepidae et Belostomidae. Notes 

diverses et descriptions d’espèces nouvelles* (Montandon, 1909 b). 

1910 – he published A propos des soi-disant neutres chez les insectes. 

(Montandon, 1910 c). It is also interesting Montandon’s comment on a A. 

Lameere’s article, disapproving with much elegance his opinion regarding the 

intelligence. Montandon considered that there were a certain degree of intelligence 

in all creatures. He will develop this idea later, in his paper from 1915, left in 

manuscript (Montandon, 1915). 

1910 – Hans Wagner published Beitrag zur entomologischen Fauna 

Rumäniens. Die Arten der Gattung Apion Herbst (co 1) vorzugweise gesammelt von 

A. L. Montandon. 

1910 – Montandon made an obituary for the entomologist George W. 

Kirkaldy in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe, using the most laudatory terms 

(Montandon, 1910 a). 

1910 - Notes supplémentaires pour la faune nevroptérologique de la 

Roumanie (2 e ). (Montandon, 1910 b). 

1911, 7 th of March – his wife, Césarine, died in Bucharest (Montandon, F.- J. 

op. cit.). That time address of the family was 2 Fabrica de chibrituri Str. The house, 

built in 1909, still exists, across Filaret bus terminal (Figs 5, 6). 

1913 – in Buletinul Secþiunii ªtiinþifice a Academiei Române he published 

Notes et description de deux espèces nouvelles (Montandon, 1913). 

1913 – O. M. Reuter’s death year, Finnish hemipterologist. According to 

Sienkiewicz, this year represent the beginning of the decline of Montandon’s 

scientifical activity (Sienkiewicz op. cit.). 

At Zorleni – Tutova (today in Vaslui County), enjoying R. Bolomey’s 

company, he wrote En marge du procès de la Science, a philosophical paper, 

probably the last printed one. It was published in Geneva, in 1914 and it was left, 

unfortunately, in the deposits of the Publishing House Fréd. Boissonnas & C ie , 

because of the war 10 . Also, there was a German version, translated by Carmen 

Sylva 11 . We do not know, yet, if it was distributed. In a letter to G. T. Kirileanu, 

dated 27 th /9 th of February 1915, Montandon said: « … traducerea germanã nu ºtiu 

unde s’a tipãrit, am numai scrisoarea lui Dall’Orso care îmi face cunoscut deja din 

primãvara anului trecut, cã traducerea în limba germanã era gata…» 11 (I don’t 

know if the German translation was printed, I have only Dall’Orso’s letter, from the 

spring of last year, where he informed me that the German translation had been 

already finished) (Pandele, 1974).


1915 – he was in Bucharest where he wrote Quelques notes sur l’oeuvre 

d’Ernest Haeckel, a paper with philosophical themes, left in manuscript. The 

original is in Montandon’s relatives possession, in France. The manuscript, dated 

«Bucarest, fevrier-Mars 1915» has 53 pages and, as Montandon mentioned from the 

very beginning, is an analysis of some aspects and even the disapproval of some 

Haeckel’s ideas, which do not raise at the level of the whole Haeckel’s work, 

„absolutely extraordinary“, as he characterized it. Written at 63 years old, after a 

fully experienced life, his very interesting paper reveals us Montandon’s opinion on 

world and life 12 . 

Within the same period he wrote Un demi siècle de sejour en Roumanie – 

Notes et souvenirs d’un naturaliste, left in manuscript, from which there are “doar 

fragmente disparate” (only disparate fragments) as Professor Tãzlãuanu mentioned 

in 1973-1974 (Pandele, 1974) 13 . 

Along his life, Montandon had several periods when he had to face the lack of 

money. For instance, when he discovered the secret of processing the Chartreuse 

liqueur, he started his production, together with his brother Paul. It followed a trial 

lodged by Perès Chartreuse from France, a trial lost by the two brothers. Paul went 

back to France. Arnold continued to deal with the wine trade, because, in the mean 

time, he became the owner of a wineyard on Filaret hill. But, his business ran worse 

and worse, and he was obliged to sell the wineyard, lot by lot. He made all these 

things for the noble purpose of continuing the study on the fauna, study who ruled 

all his life. 

He spent his last years in Cernavodã, in «le pays le plus monotone qu’on 

puisse imaginer», as he characterized this place in 1887. At 66 years old, financially 

ruined and in a bad health, Montandon was employed at the Bolt Factory. He died 

on 1 st of March 1922. 

1922, 3 rd of March – During the ordinary meeting of the Academy, after the 

receiving of the telegram from Cernavodã, which announced «încetarea din viaþã a 

d-lui A. L. Montandon, membru corespondent strãin în secþiunea ºtiinþificã, ales la 

11 Aprilie 1905 » (A. L. Montandon’s death, foreign corresponding member in the 

Scientifical Department, elected on 11 th of April 1905), Grigore Antipa had an 

impressive speech by which he evoked the great personality, mentioning all his 

achievements. Antipa began his speech underlining that this lost «reprezintã o mare 

pierdere pentru ºtiinþã în general ºi pentru Faunistica României în special» 

(represents a great lost for the science, in general, and especially for the Romanian 

faunistic) and he ended with the words: «Sã pãstrãm dar în cinste memoria acestui 

modest om de ºtiinþã a cãrui viaþã a fost consacratã studiului þãrii noastre, care 

devenise ºi patria sa adoptivã.» (Let’s keep the memory of this modest scientist who 

dedicated his life for the study of our country, which became his adoptive country) 

(Antipa, op. cit.). 

* 

Maybe next generation want to find out and ask: What Arnold Lucien 

Montandon left behind? There were left the scientifical papers and most of the 

species discovered by him; there were left the proofs on some places and times 

which never come back; there were left his philosophical ideas; there were left and 

will resist throughout time his rich collections which spread in different places of the 

world, but a large part is preserved also in Bucharest, at “Grigore Antipa” National 

Museum of Natural History, whose fame is also due to Montandon. In this museum 

there is the great Palaearctic and exotic heteropteran collection, with tens of


thousands of specimens, including type specimens, numerous coleopterans, 

homopterans, orthopterans, etc.; a separate collection of Palaearctic molluscs, with 

1,147 specimens, with 320 species and varieties, as well as numerous exotic 

molluscs, preserved together with other specimens from other collections of 

historical value. 

A name remained among the foreign corresponding members of the 

Scientifical Department of the Golden Book of the Romanian Academy … 

Knowing such kind of people’s personality, their way in approaching Nature, 

the young scientists could become deeper in their way of thinking and could ask 

several questions to which they have to find the answer. So, they could understand 

better the complexity, beauty and the importance of the Man – Nature relationship. 

It is well to remind, at least from time to time, that if we are where we are 

today and some of us have important achievements, it is also because there were 

such kind of people, capable of sacrifying their time, health and all they had for the 

next generations. People as Montandon will dedicate their life for noble purposes 

wherever they settle in the World, to whom the sacrifice is never too great and who 

consider that they left behind only a modest contribution. 

Notes 

1. This figure is taken from Dr. C. Istrati’s exposition from the 11th of April 1905, at the Romanian 

Academy. 

2. “Deºi nãscut la Besançon ºi de origine francezã, Montandon a fost cetãþean elveþian” (although he 

was born in Besançon and was of French origin, Montandon was a Swiss citizen), wrote Sienkiewicz to 

the senior author, in one of his letters, sent from Gulfport-Florida, on 5 th of November 1984. 

3. Members of a Christian religious sect which was founded near locality Albi from southern France, in 

the 12 th century. After a crusade made against them by the Pope Inocent III, the inhabitants of the Albi 

are defeated in 1213 and obliged to find refuge (Andrei, 1998). 

4. When drawing up his paper from 1974, C. Pandele used also original documents as the paper 

“Arnold L. Montandon primul entomolog care a cercetat Valea Bistriþei ºi alte regiuni din þarã” 

(Arnold L. Montandon, the first entomologist who studied Bistriþa Valley and other regions of the 

country) written by F. Cârdei and I.Tãzlãuanu, in 1956, sent to the magazine Natura, but unpublished. 

Another original source was R. Bolomey’s letter to G. T. Kirileanu, dated 25 th of February 1942. 

5. As regards the year of his employment as Antipa’s assitant, at least two wrong dates were published: 

V. Iuga-Ganea, who wrote on Grigore Antipa, in 1938: «C’est en 1900, que le ministère lui accorde un 

assistant et il s’empresse de s’assurer la collaboration de A. Montandon, versé entomologiste» and M. 

Bãcescu, in 1967: «Les premiers assistants au musée furent les specialistes R. Dombrowski (1895- 

1916), A. Montandon (1901-1907), I. Popa Burcã et R. Canisius (1907-1934) peintre-entomologiste». 

6. The register was obtained by the first author, by Dr. Igor Sienkiewicz’s extraordinary kindness, from 

Canada, and it will be the subject of another note. 

7. We think that the wrong data from C. Istrati’s speech, namely: 1877 – Montandon’s arrival year in 

Romania, instead of 1872; 1886 – his retiring from Sinaia, instead of 1888 and Buºteni, instead of 

Broºteni – are printing errors which were made during the transcription of the speech. We make this 

assertion being convinced that the errors were too obvious for passing unobserved. Unfortunately these 

wrong data were taken over and published by several authors. 

8. If we take into consideration that in his speech from the 11 th of April 1905 at the Romanian Academy, 

C. Istrati did not mentioned this Montandon’s decoration, maybe he received it after this date. 

9. It is true that in the „Anuarul Ministerului Instrucþiunii“ (Year Book of the Ministry of Education) 

from 1908, Montandon is mentioned as assistant at the Museum of Natural History from Bucharest, but 

surely the data refers to the previous year situation, because his signature had not appeared on the 

paylist after April 1907. 

10. Montandon had some issues as author, as it results from the post card sent to G. T. Kirileanu on 

February 27/9, 1915, submited by Pandele in 1974, as fotocopy. Soon, our colleague Alexandru 

Marinescu, well-known for his works on science history, had the pleasure of aquiring an original issue 

of this volume, from a second-hand bookseller, on the cover having a dedication writen by Montandon! 

11. In the original version of paper Montandon writes: Sa Majesté, la Reine Elisabeth de Roumanie, 

vénérée dans le monde des lettres sous le pseudonyme de Carmen Sylva, l’auteur si hautement 

apprécié des Pensées d’une Reine, qui a doté la littérature allemande des “Pêcheurs d’Islande” de


Loti, et des “Deux Masques” de Paul Saint-Victor, a traduit aussi Elle-même le présent travail, pour le 

faire publier en allemand. 

12. On this occasion we make a correction in the Bibliography published by Andrei in 1993: title of the 

manuscript Mon testament scientifique, transcribed after Tãzlãuanu’s notes from 1954, has to be 

replaced by Quelques notes sur l’oeuvre d’Ernest Haeckel, correction made by Tãzlãuanu himself, 

about in 1973-74. Also in Tãzlãuanu’s notes from 1954 it was mentioned that the manuscript was at 

Montandon’s relatives from France. In 1997, Prof. Corneliu Pandele published at Galaþi, in the paper 

ªcoala Gãlãþeanã, an anniversary article for 145 years since Montandon’s birth, where he mentioned 

the correct original title of this manuscript: Quelques notes sur l’oeuvre d’Ernest Haeckel. Till the 

moment of reading this manuscript, we cited Tãzlãuanu several times, who said that it is about “o 

criticã aprigã a teoriilor lui Haeckel“ (a harsh criticism on Haeckel’s theories) taking over the idea from 

a Bolomey’s letter to Kirileanu (dated 25 th of February 1942). Today, a coppy of this manuscript is in 

the senior author’s possession, due to Dr. Sienkiewicz’s kindness, who got it from Montandon’s 

relatives from France. As Montandon pointed out in the first pages, this manuscript did not represent 

such a criticism by far. 

13. Notes, fragments of manuscripts from different published papers, on about 50 sheets of paper, 

written in French, were in G. T. Kirileanu’s library from Piatra Neamþ. He knew Montandon and gave 

him all love and attention. When Kirileanu died, in 1960, all these documents were taken by the 

Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania (Pandele, 1974). 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

We express our thanks to Prof. Dimitrie I. Cãrãuºu (University Iaºi), Prof. Ion Tãzlãuanu (Iaºi), 

dr. Igor Sienkiewicz (Montreal, Canada), dr. Dan Ottiger Dumitrescu (Fribourg, Switzerland), dr. 

Mihai Sorin Rãdulescu (Bucureºti), dr. Paul Dãncescu (Montreal, Canada), dr. Iorgu Petrescu 

(„Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History) and Mircea-Dragomir Andrei. Thanks are due 

to anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions. 

ARNOLD - LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 – 1922), MEMBRU CORESPONDENT AL 

ACADEMIEI ROMÂNE 

REZUMAT 

Arnold L. Montandon (1852-1922) ºi-a dedicat întreaga viaþã ªtiinþei. Pe la 1900 era 

recunoscut drept unul dintre cei mai buni entomologi-hemipterologi ai Lumii. A studiat insectele pe 

care le primea din cele mai îndepãrtate þãri, descriind sute de taxoni noi. Nãscut în Franþa ºi stabilit 

definitiv în România, din 1873, el va cerceta permanent fauna ºi flora patriei adoptive, iar lucrãrile sale 

referitoare la Moldova, Muntenia ºi Dobrogea vor fi printre primele în acest domeniu. 

În cronologia lor autorii pun accent tocmai pe contribuþia majorã a marelui autodidact la 

cercetarea ºtiinþificã din România. La 11 Aprilie 1905, pentru meritele sale deosebite, Arnold Lucien 

Montandon devine membru corespondent strãin al Academiei Române, în Secþiunea ªtiinþificã. 

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Received: December 7, 2005 Gabriela Andrei 

Accepted: January 27, 2006 Muzeul Naþional de Istorie Naturalã “Grigore Antipa” 

ªos. Kiseleff nr. 1, 011341 Bucureºti 2, România 

e-mail: gabria@antipa.ro 

Corneliu Pandele 

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Þiglina II 800378 Galaþi, România 

e-mail: pandele_corneliu@yahoo.com


Annex I: Taxa described by A. L. Montandon** 

HETEROPTERA 

Family PLATASPIDAE: Aphanopneuma stali (1892 – Congo); Apotomogonius (1892); 

Apotomogonius exornatus (1892 – Chutes de Samlia, Riv. N. Gamic); Apotomogonius 

maculatus (1896 – Gabon); Brachyplatys biroi (1900 – Nouvelle Guinée: Sattelberg dans la 

région de l’Huon Golf 1899); Brachyplatys caeruleatus (1896 – Woodlark, 1890); 

Brachyplatys capito (1894 –Otahaiti); Brachyplatys humeralis (1896 – Inde); Brachyplatys 

humeralis var. major (1896 – Siam, 1893); Brachyplatys laticeps (1896 – Australie, 1894); 

Brachyplatys obscurus (1896 – I. Yule, Fly River, Nlle Guinée); Brachyplatys raffrayi (1896 

– Nouv.-Guinée Dorey, 1878); Brachyplatys truncaticeps (1894 – Congo, Mpala, Marungu 

(Cap. Storms) et Congo, Landana); Cantharodes bouvieri (1896 – Congo, 1893); 

Cantharodes nubilosus (1892 – Congo); Cantharodes tibialis (1896 - &: Sibange, Gabon); 

Caternaultiella ferruginea (1899 – sur la route de Kassongo à Stanley Falls, Congo belge); 

Caternaultiella haglundi (1896 - &: Congo, Chutes de Samlia Riv. N. Gamic); Ceratocoris 

cephalicus (1899 – Congo belge-Loulouabourg, Haut Kassaï; Beni Bendi Sankuru 1895); 

Ceratocoris seeldrayersi (1896 - &: Loulouabourg, Ht Kassai, Congo Belge); Coptosoma 

abesum (1894 – Barway, Inde boréale); Coptosoma abbreviatum (1894 – Barway, Inde 

boréale); Coptosoma aciculatum (1896 – Ha-Lang, Haut-Tonkin); Coptosoma acuticeps 

(1894 – Iles Philippines); Coptosoma adjunctum (1896 – Caffrerie; Madagascar); 

Coptosoma alienum (1899 – Dai Badditu a Dimè. Juin-Août 1896); Coptosoma amplexum 

(1896 – &: Ha-Lang, Haut Tonkin); Coptosoma amyoti (1896 – Pondichery, 1840); 

Coptosoma annulipes (1900 – Madagascar: Baie d’Antongil); Coptosoma apiatum (1894 – 

Congo); Coptosoma atratulum (1894 – Australie: Somerset, Janvier 1875); Coptosoma 

atriceps (1896 – Zanguebar; Zanzibar); Coptosoma aurivillianum (1894 – &: Svakop, 

Afrique du Sud-Est); Coptosoma bellatulum (1896 – Perak, Malacca; Poulo Laout près 

Bornéo); Coptosoma bifarium (1896 – Chine, Ngan Hoei); Coptosoma bisoculatum (1894 – 

%: Barway, Inde boréale et 1896 - &: Bengale?); Coptosoma bituminatum (1896 - Kiang-Si, 

1875); Coptosoma bottegoi (1899 – Da Mat-Agoi a Lugh. Novembre 1895); Coptosoma 

breviculum (1896 – Se-Tchouen, 1875); Coptosoma bullatum (1900 – &: Madagascar: Baie 

d’Antongil); Coptosoma caliginosum (1893 – Célèbes, Bankala); Coptosoma capitulatum 

(1894 – Java); Coptosoma cardoni (1896 – Barway, Inde Septentrionale); Coptosoma 

catagraphum (1892 – Zanzibar); Coptosoma caudatum (1894 – Montagnes des Carin, 

district des Carin Cheba. 900-1100 mètres d’altitude); Coptosoma centronotatum (1900 – 

Sumatra, Padang); Coptosoma confusum (1892 – Mozambique, Rikatla); Coptosoma 

conpunctum; Coptosoma contectum (1893 – Inde; Bengale; Kurseong, Kombir; Darjeling, 

Inde bor.); Coptosoma cyanescens (1894 – Congo); Coptosoma davidi (1896 - &: Se- 

Tchouen, 1875); Coptosoma denticeps (1893 – Indes- Orientales); Coptosoma depulsum 

(1896 – Madagascar, Bezanozano); Coptosoma dilutum (1894 - Cap York, Australie); 

Coptosoma dissolutum (1900 – Sumatra, Padang); Coptosoma distanti (1893 – Naga Hills. 

Inde boréale); Coptosoma distigma (1896 – &: Inde); Coptosoma dubiosum (1896 – &: 

Sumatra, Si-Rambé); Coptosoma erosum (1894 – Montagnes des Carin, district des Carin 

Cheba 900-1100 mètres d’altitude); Coptosoma erugatum (1895 – &: Boran Galla, Auata, 

Mai 1893); Coptosoma excoffieri (1899 – Yun-nan-sen); Coptosoma falloui (1893 – Gabon; 

Congo, chutes de Samlia, riv. N. Gamic; Equateur); Coptosoma falloui var. candidulum 

(1896 – Congo); Coptosoma feanum (1894 - Montagnes des Carin, district des Carin Cheba: 

Rangoon); Coptosoma fieberi (1894 – &: Nouvelle Guinée: Sorong, Mai 1872); Coptosoma 

fimbriatum var. cingulatum (1896 – Chine); Coptosoma flavescens (1894 – Indes 

Orientales); Coptosoma frontatum (1894 - Nouvelle Guinée méridionale: Kelesi, Novembre- 

Décembre 1890), Coptosoma gravidum (1893 – Java; Tonkin); Coptosoma hirsutum (1893 – 

Gabon); Coptosoma horvathi (1894 – Chine); Coptosoma humile (1893 – Lux, côtes du 

Loango); Coptosoma immaculatum (1894 – Indes orientales); Coptosoma impicticolle (1900 

– Sumatra); Coptosoma insignitum (1894 – Iles Philippines); Coptosoma intricatum (1894 – 

Iles Philippines); Coptosoma junodi (1894 – &: Mozambique, Rikatla); Coptosoma


laeviusculum (1893 – Madagascar; Zanzibar); Coptosoma laticinctum (1894 – Iles 

Philippines); Coptosoma lethierryi (1892 – Inde boréale– Mungphu); Coptosoma 

libidinosum (1894 – Barway, Inde boréale); Coptosoma limbatum (1896 – Inde, Tenass Vall, 

Myitta (Doherty); Coptosoma limitatum (1896 – &: patrie…?); Coptosoma loriae (1894 – 

Nouvelle Guinée: Rigo (Juillet 1889), Ighibirei (Août et Septembre 1890), Dilo, Hula, 

Kamali, Kapa Kapa; Ile Yule (Juin 1875), Fly River (1876-1877); Coptosoma medians 

(1896 – Grand Bassam, 1855); Coptosoma miscellum (1894 - Nouvelle Guinée méridionale: 

Hula, Janvier 1891); Coptosoma modiglianii (1893 – Kifa-juc, mai 1891); Coptosoma 

nasutum (1896 – &: Java; Merang, Sumatra); Coptosoma nebulosum (1892 – Zanguebar); 

Coptosoma nigricolor (1896 - &: Java); Coptosoma notabile (1894 - &: Chine); Coptosoma 

nothum (1892 – Senegal); Coptosoma noualhieri (1896 – Inde méridionale, Pulney Hills); 

Coptosoma noualhieri var. obscuratum (1896 – Inde Septentrionale, Barway); Coptosoma 

obrosum (1894 – Birmanie: Shwegoo); Coptosoma ophthalmicum (1894 – Montagnes des 

Carin, district des Carin Cheba 900-1100 mètres d’altitude); Coptosoma opimum (1896 – 

Sumatra, Balighe); Coptosoma ordinatum (1896 – Madagascar, 1837); Coptosoma 

ordinatum var. funebre (1896 – &: Madagascar, 1839); Coptosoma parviceps (1894 – 

Chine); Coptosoma parvipictum (1892 – Chine: Ho-Chan, prov. Ngan-Hoei. cotype Ho 

Chan); Coptosoma perplexum (1896 - &: Java; Sumatra, Pea Ragia); Coptosoma perplexum 

suspiciosum (1896 – Buitenzorg, Java); Coptosoma perpunctum (1896 - &: Patrie…?); 

Coptosoma pilosulum (1892 - Chutes de Samlia, Riv. N. Gamic); Coptosoma politum (1896 

- &: Iles Philippines); Coptosoma pravum (1896 - Inde, Tenass Vall, Myitta (Doherty); 

Coptosoma prolaticeps (1896 – Chine, Ngan-Hoei, Ho-chan); Coptosoma pulchellum 

(1894- Montagnes des Carin, district des Carin Cheba ); Coptosoma pulchellum var. 

discinctum (1896 – Chine); Coptosoma pulchellum var. impeditum (1896 – Java); 

Coptosoma pulchellum var. omnimodum (1896 – Inde méridionale, Pulney Hills); 

Coptosoma punctatissimum (1896 – Japon; Shanghai; Java; Nouvelle Calédonie); 

Coptosoma puncticeps (1896 – Rikatla, Mozambique et Sierra Leone; Chutes de Samlia, 

Congo Belge); Coptosoma puncticeps var. compunctum (1896 – Rikatla, Mozambique; 

Congo); Coptosoma putoni (1898 – &: Akbès, Syrie); Coptosoma pygmaeum (1896 – 

Ceylan; Pulo Penang; Java; Calcutta); Coptosoma pygmaeum var. accensitum (1896 - &: 

Sumatra, Java, Ceram et Celebes); Coptosoma pygmaeum var. paradoxum (1896 – Australie, 

Somerset); Coptosoma rabieri (1896 – Montagnes du Ht Song-Chai, 1895); Coptosoma 

rubromaculatum (1894 - &: Nouvelle Guinée N. O.: Dorei Hum, 1875); Coptosoma 

schaefferi (1896 – Borneo); Coptosoma sculpturatum (1892 – Madagascar); Coptosoma 

sphaerulum var. illuminatum (1896 – Inde, Barway); Coptosoma signaticolle (1896 – Inde 

méridionale, Trichinopoly, Pullney Hills); Coptosoma signatum (1894 – Iles Philippines); 

Coptosoma solitarium (1894 – Birmanie: Shwegoo); Coptosoma sordidulum (1892 – Chine: 

Ho-Chan, prov. Ngan-Hoei); Coptosoma sparsum (1894 – Barway, Inde boréale); 

Coptosoma spurium (1896 – Sumatra, Si-Rambé); Coptosoma stabilitum (1900 - Nouvelle 

Guinée); Coptosoma stali (1896 – Vieux Calabar; Gabon; Assinie); Coptosoma 

subcarinatum (1893 – Zanzibar); Coptosoma subsimile (1893 – Condi, Afrique occidentale 

?; Chutes de Samlia, riv. N. Gamic); Coptosoma sumatranum (1896 – Sumatra, Pea Ragia, 

Si Rambé, Balighe, Siboga, Padang – Octobre 1890); Coptosoma tenasserimense (1894 – 

Tenasserim: Aswon); Coptosoma terminale (1894 - Nouvelle Guinée méridionale: Kelesi, 

Novembre-Décembre 1890), Coptosoma uniforme (1893 – Java: Buitenzorg, Batavia); 

Coptosoma validiceps (1894 - Nouvelle Guinée méridionale: Kamali, Fevrier 1891); 

Coptosoma variolosum (1894– Lux, côtes du Loango,1879); Coptosoma varium (1893 – 

Birmanie); Coptosoma verrucosum (1896 – &:Thibet, Mou-Pin, 1870); Coptosoma vicinum 

(1894 – Australie, Somerset, Janvier 1875); Coptosoma viridans (1896 – &: Poulo Laout); 

Coptosoma vollenhoveni (1896 – Sumatra, Perak, Hué, Ho-Lang Haut Tonkin); Coptosoma 

W (1893 – &: Barway, Bengale; Bhamo, Birmanie; 1894 - %: Barway, Inde boréale); 

Coptosoma zonatum (1896 – &: Sumatra, Pangherang Pisang); Cratoplatys (1894); 

Cratoplatys gestroi (1893 – Palon, Pegou); Fieberisca (1896); Fieberisca ornata (1896 – 

Inde); Gabonia (1894 ); Gabonia irradiata (1894 – Gabon); Handlirschiella (1892);


Handlirschiella aenea (1892 – Gabon); Handlirschiella emarginata (1892 – Gabon); 

Isoplatys (1892); Isoplatys flavonotatus (1892 – Gabon); Livingstonisca (1894); 

Livingstonisca rugatissima (1894 – Livingstonia, Afrique australe); Madegaschia (1894); 

Madegaschia distanti (1894 - Madagascar); Madegaschia polita (1894 - &: Madagascar); 

Madegaschia punctata (1900 – Madagascar: Baie d’Antongil); Montandonia irradiata; 

Plataspis cincta (1892); Plataspis conspersa (1892 – Madagascar); Plataspis flavosparsa 

(1894 – Loulouabourg, Haut Kassai, Congo); Plataspis funebris (1899 – Madagascar. 

Ampasimena); Plataspis gambeyi (1892 – Gabon); Plataspis guirali (1896 – Congo, 1883); 

Plataspis guttulata (1892 – Gabon; chûtes de Samlia); Plataspis haglundi (1896 – 

Madagascar); Plataspis maculosa (1899 - &: sur la route de Kassongo à Stanley-Falls, Haut- 

Congo); Plataspis notatipes (1896 – Plataux de Boshat, Etat d’Orange); Plataspis plagifera 

Reut. var. punctulata (1896 – Congo, Vall. du Mpozo); Plataspis pulchella (1893 – Gabon); 

Plataspis tenuipicta (1894 – Kagera Nil, Afrique orientale); Ponsila insolita (1893 – 

Palawan, Iles Philippines); Ponsila severini (1892 – Chutes de Samlia, Riv. N. Gamic); 

Probaenops cloetensi (1899 – Beni Bendi Sankuru. Congo belge 1895); Pseudoponsila 

(1895); Pseudoponsila puncticeps (1895 – &: Ganale Guddà. Arussi G alla, Mars 1893 et 

Bardera. Somali, Août 1893); Schizometopus (1894); Schizometopus obscurus (1894 – 

Nouvelle Guinée); Severiniella (1894); Severiniella haasi (1894 – Loulouabourg, Haut 

Kassai, Congo); Spathocrates (1893); Spathocrates atroaeneus (1893 – cotype Engano. 

Kila-juc., 1891); Tiarocoris contestatus (1893 – Chan Yoma, Birmanie); Tiarocoris 

luminatus (1892 – Malacca); … 

Family NAUCORIDAE: Ambrysus acutangulus (1897 – Province de Corrientes, 1834); 

Ambrysus attenuatus (1897 – Villa Rica, Brésil, 1893); Ambrysus bergi (1897 – Buenos 

Ayres); Ambrysus californicus (1897 – S. Californie); Ambrysus circumcinctus (1910); 

Ambrysus colombicus (1909); Ambrysus crenulatus (1897 – Nouvelle Grenade, Ocana); 

Ambrysus fraternus (1897 – Goyaz à Cuyaba, 1847); Ambrysus geayi (1897 – Darien, 

1896); Ambrysus hybrida (1897 – Mexique); Ambrysus horvathi (1909); Ambrysus 

mexicanus (1897 – Mexique); Ambrysus mormon (1909); Ambrysus mormon heidemanni 

(1910); Ambrysus nitidulus (1909); Ambrysus oblongulus (1897 – Costa Rica, Talamanca); 

Ambrysus obscuratus (1898 – Brésil, Pernambuco); Ambrysus ochraceus (1909); Ambrysus 

parviceps (1897 – Mexique); Ambrysus pulchellus (1897 – Guatemala); Aneurocoris 

(1897); Aneurocoris insolitus (1897 – Tanganyka, Mpala, 1896); Aptinocoris (1897); 

Aptinocoris papuus (1897 – Nouvelle Guinée, Hatam, 1875); Aphelocheirus denticeps 

(1910); Aphelocheirus schoutedeni (1914); Cataractocoris macrocephalus (1897); 

Cheirochela birmaniensis (1897 – Catcin Cauri, 1886); Cheirochela feana (1897 – Catcin 

Cauri, 1886); Coptocatus (1909); Coptocatus oblongulus (1909); Cryphocricus 

macrocephalus (1897 – Haute Vera Paz, 1866); Cryphocricinae (1879); Ctenipocoris 

(1897); Ctenipocoris asiaticus (1897 – Carin Chebà 1888); Gestroiella (1897); Gestroiella 

limnocoroides (1897 – Carin Ghecù, Carin Asciui Chebà 1888); Heleocoris bengalensis 

(1910); Heleocoris bergrothi (1897 – Indes orientales, Utakamand); Heleocoris grandis 

(1909); Heleocoris indicus (1897 – Inde, Bellary, 1883); Heleocoris laeviceps (1897 – Haut 

Tenasserim); Heleocoris nebulosus (1909); Heleocoris ovatus (1897 – Lakhon, 1878); 

Heleocoris spinipes (1897 – Novo Friburgo); Heleocoris strabus (1897 – Tenasserim, 

Thagatà 1887); Heleocoris vicinus (1910); Idiocarus (1897); Idiocarus elongatus (1897 – 

Sud-Est de la Nouvelle Guinée, Haveri, Paumomou Riv., 1892/93); Laccocoris aurivillii 

(1897 – Namaquamin); Laccocoris discus (1897 – Cameroun); Laccocoris foncee (1897); 

Laccocoris horvathi (1897 – Brunei, Bornéo); Laccocoris marginatus (1897 – Bornéo, 

1886); Laccocoris nervicus (1897 – Sumatra, Balighe, Si Rambe, 1890-91); Laccocoris 

staudingeri (1897 – Brunei, Bornéo); Limnocoris bergrothi (1898 – Venezuela); Limnocoris 

borellii (1897 – Caiza, Bolivie); Limnocoris bouvieri (1898 – Bogota 1862); Limnocoris 

dissidens (1911); Limnocoris distanti (1911); Limnocoris dubiosus (1898 – Chili 1834; 

Martinique); Limnocoris inornatus (1898 - Guatemala); Limnocoris maculiceps (1898 – 

Matto Grosso 1847); Limnocoris nigropunctatus (1909); Limnocoris obscurus (1898 –


Colombie, Abejoral 1874); Limnocoris ochraceus (1898 – Colombie 1941); Limnocoris 

ovatulus (1897 – Salta, Rep. Argentine); Limnocoris pauper (1897 – Cumbase, Nord du 

Brésil); Limnocoris pectoralis (1897 – Salta, Rep. Argentine); Limnocoris pusillus (1897 – 

Novo Friburgo); Limnocoris signoreti (1897 – Mexico); Limnocoris stali (1897 – 

Venezuela; Guatemala et Bolivie; N-lle Grenade, Ocana); Limnocoris uhleri (1910); 

Limnocoris virescens (1897 – Costa Rica, Buenos Aires); Macrocoris convexus (1897 – 

Benué, Niger); Macrocoris handlirschi (1909); Macrocoris laticollis (1909); Macrocoris 

nigropunctatus (1909); Macrocoris parviceps (1900 – Afrique orientale: Dar-es-Salaam); 

Naucoris madagascariensis (1899 - Madagascar); Naucoris obscuratus (1913); Naucoris 

subopacus (1913), Neomacrocoris parviceps (1900); Neomacrocoris usambaricus (1913); 

Pelocoris biimpressus (1898); Pelocoris minutus (…Rio Apa alta. Paraguay); Pelocoris 

subflavus (1898); Pseudambrysus (1897); Pseudambrysus fairmairei (1897- Madagascar); 

Sagocoris biroi (1911); Temnocoris (1897); Temnocoris translucidus (1897 – Madagascar, 

1897); … 

Family NEPIDAE: Amphischizops (1898); Amphischizops compressicollis (1898); 

Cercotmetus brevipes (1909); Cercotmetus compositus (1903 – Laos 1876, Bangkok, Mahé, 

Balasore); Cercotmetus dissidens (1909 ?); Cercotmetus strangulatus (1909 ?); Curicta 

borellii (1903 – San Francisco. République Argentine; co-type: Rep. Argentine); Curicta 

howardi (1910); Curicta suspecta (1903 – San Leopoldo); Curicta volxemi (1895); 

Laccotrephes ampliatus; Laccotrephes armatus (1898 – Banana. Congo belge); 

Laccotrephes armipes (1909); Laccotrephes biimpressus (1912); Laccotrephes calcaratus 

(1898 – Somalis-Medo Erella); Laccotrephes dissimulatus (1912); Laccotrephes 

dissimulatus incisus (1912); Laccotrephes elongatus (1912); Laccotrephes latimanus 

(1909); Laccotrephes oculatus (1898 – Freetown. Sierra Leone; Tomby Congo 1883; Arussi 

Galla 1893); Laccotrephes papuus (1900 – Nouvelle Guinée Britannique); Laccotrephes 

simulatus (1913); Laccotrephes vicinus (1914); Nepa ampliata (1895 – Gabon); Nepa 

depressa (1895 – Congo-Chûtes de Samlia, Riv. N’Gamic); Nepa dilatata (1895 – Niam- 

Niam); Nepoidea (1895); Nepoidea volxemi (1895 – Sta Cruz, Mexique); Paranepa 

primitiva (1912); Ranatra aethiopica (1903 – Scioa: Fallé, 8 février 1885); Ranatra atropha 

(1905); Ranatra americana (1910); Ranatra bottegoi (1903 – Somalis: Basso Ganana août, 

septembre 1893); Ranatra brevicauda (1905); Ranatra brevicollis (1905); Ranatra camposi 

(1910); Ranatra ceana (1910); Ranatra compressicollis (1898 – Venezuela); Ranatra 

denticulipes (1908); Ranatra diminuta (1906); Ranatra dispar (1903 – Alexandra, Victoria, 

Australia; Melbourne; Sydney; co-type: Victoria. Alexandra); Ranatra dispar var. 

longicollis (1903 – Brisbane et Cap York); Ranatra distanti (1910); Ranatra emaciata 

(1907); Ranatra falloui (1907); Ranatra feana (1903 – Mandalay, Birmanie 1886); Ranatra 

heydeni (1909); Ranatra longicollis (1908); Ranatra longipes mixta (1907); Ranatra 

obscura (1906); Ranatra palidenotata (1903); Ranatra robusta; Ranatra segrega (1905); 

Ranatra signoreti (1903); Ranatra sjoestedti (1905); Ranatra spoliata (1912); Ranatra stali 

(1905); Telmatotrephes breddini (1907); … 

Family LYGAEIDAE: Arocatus subaeneus (1893 - Mozambique, Rikatla); Beosus luscus 

Fabr. var. buyssoni (1889 – Brout-Vernet (Allier) et Toulouse); Beosus buysssoni; Beosus 

maritimus f. buyssoni (1889); Blissus hirtus (1893 – Hazleton Pennsylvanie); Blissus 

minusculus (1893); Blissus pulchellus (1893 – Buenos Aires, Costa Rica); Cymus distinctus; 

Emblethis angustus (1890 - Algérie: Oran, Tlemcen; Batna, Biskra; Corse; Avignon 

(France); Emblethis parvus (1890 – Algérie: Bône, Oran; Tanger); Emblethis verbasci Fabr. 

var. minor (1890 – Biskra; Bône; Hyères); Emblethis verbasci Fabr. var. major (1890 – 

Maroc; Jerusalem; Oran); Eremocoris obscuratus (1895 – Plainesci (district de Rimnic 

Sarat); Geocoris alluaudi (1908); Geocoris anemiatus (1907); Geocoris atricolor; Geocoris 

blandus (1907); Geocoris bottegoi (1907); Geocoris conjugator (1908); Geocoris dolosus 

(1907); Geocoris dubreuili (1908); Geocoris hirsutus (1906); Geocoris infuscatus (1907); 

Geocoris junodi (1906); Geocoris maindroni; Geocoris notabilis (1907); Geocoris pilosulus


(1907); Geocoris puberulus (1907); Geocoris schoutedeni (1908); Geocoris scissilis (1913); 

Geocoris sjoestedti (1908); Geocoris villosulus (1907); Germalus montrouzieri (1913); 

Gonatas obscuratus; Gonianotus barbarus (1890 – Tunisie, Oudref; Algérie, Géryville, 

Mécheria ); Graptopeltus angustatus (1889 – Amour); Graptopeltus validus Horv. var. 

lethierryi (1889- Corfou); Graptostethus dissidens (1893 – Benué, Niger et Rikatla, 

Mozambique); Hypogeocoris bergevini (1913); Hypogeocoris kilimandjariensis (1908); 

Lasiocoris antennatus (1889 – Demindje Keuy, Bosphore et Parnasse); Lygaeus 

consanguineus (1893 – Rufisque, Sénégal; Benué, Niger); Lygaeus melanospiloides (1893 – 

Ile de Poulo Condore, Cochinchine); Melanocoryphus melanospiloides; Ninyas distanti 

(1906); Oncopeltus bicinctus (1861); Peritrechus ambiguus Horv. var. pallipes (1889- 

Bucarest); Pezocoris reuteri (1889 – Pamir: Turkestan); Stenophthalmicus horvathi (1908); 

Stenophthalmicus mixtus (1897 – Sfax, 1896); Stygnocoris mandibularis (1889 – Oran; 

envir. de Biskra; La Calle); Stylogeocoris biroi (1913); … 

Family PENTATOMIDAE: Aelia henschi (1886 – environs de Gorice et environs de 

Monfalcone); Aspavia acuminata (1894 – Assinie, Guinée); Aspavia nigricosta (1894 – 

Natal, Howick; Zanzibar); Banasa virescens (…- Costa Rica. Alajuela); Brachynema 

cinctum var. miniatulum (1900 – La Nouvelle, Aude); Brachynema cinctum var. splendidum 

(1900 – Environs de Biskra); Brachynema venustulum (1900 – &: Ammi Moussa, 

Département d’Oran, Algérie); Cosmopepla coerulata (1893 – Venezuela; Costa Rica); 

Cosmopepla uhleri (1893 – Vancouver Island; Los Angeles); Dendrocoris pini (1893 - 

Argus Mountains, Cal.- coll. on Pinus monophylla. May 91); Demoleus haglundi (1895 – 

Resistencia); Demoleus lethierryi (1895 – Montevideo); Edessa diolleyi; Eurostus moutoni 

(1894 – Chine: % Ngan Hoei, & Zo-sé); Eurostus ochraceus (1894 – Chine; Borneo); 

Eurygaster schreiberi (1885 – Gorice (Illyrie); Leprosoma carinatum (1895 – Plainesci 

(District de Rimnic Sarat); Niarius haglundi (1903 – Alexandra, Victoria); Oncocoris 

dimidiatus (1903 – Australie, Victoria, Alexandra); Oncocoris lethierryi (1903 - Australie); 

Oncocoris subsimilis (1903 – Australie, Victoria, Alexandra); Oplomus punctatus (1895 – 

Salta); Placosternum obtusum (1894 – &: Mysore, Inde Anglaise); Platycoris distinctus 

(1903 – Alexandra, Victoria); Podisus borellii (1895 – Salta); Tarisa setulosa (1900 - 

Environs de Biskra); Thyreocoris borellii (1895 – Salta, San Pablo); Tyoma verrucosa (1894 

– Bénué, Niger); … 

Family BELOSTOMATIDAE: Amorgius camposi (1900 – Guayaquil, Equateur; co-type: 

Ecuador, La Palma; Provincia de Los Rios); Amorgius niloticus var. persicus (…- co-type: 

Bussorah); Amorgius insulanus; Amorgius oculatus; Appasus severini (1896 – Banana 

Boma, Congo Belge); Belostoma aurivillianum (1913); Belostoma bakeri (1913); Belostoma 

boutareli (1895 – Cochinchine); Belostoma candidulum (1903 – Rio Grande do Sul, Brésil; 

co-type: Brésil); Belostoma cordophanum f. persica (1898); Belostoma denticolle (1903 – 

Guyanes, Surinam, Cayenne; co-type: Cavenne Pillault); Belostoma discretum (1903 – San 

Paolo de Olivença, Amazone; province de Corrientes 1834 et Brésil, Manaos; Rio Apa, 

Haut-Paraguay; co-type: N. Amazone Faro); Belostoma edentulum (1898 – Rockhampton, 

Queensland, Australie); Belostoma gestroi (1900 – Argentine et Paraguay); Belostoma 

horvathi (1903 - Sta Catharina, Brésil); Belostoma insulanum (1898 – Nouvelle Calédonie et 

Nouvelle Guinée); Belostoma mayri (1896 – Brésil); Belostoma dentatum var. major (1903); 

Belostoma noualhieri (1903 – Rio Grande do Sul); Belostoma oculatum (1896 – 

Madagascar); Belostoma niloticum var. persicum (1898 – Bussorah, non loin de 

l’embouchure du Chat el Arab dans le Golfe Persique); Belostoma sanctulum (1903 – 

Espirito Santo, Brésil; co-type: Espirito Santo Brasil); Belostoma uhleri (1896 – Floride; 

Pennsylvanie; Kansas); Diplonychus stappersi (1911); Horvathinia (1911); Horvathinia 

pelocoroides (1911); Hydrocyrius nanus (1906 – co-type &: West Africa); Kirkaldyia 

(1909); Lethocerus oculatus (1908); Limnogeton expansum (1896 – Tanganyka); Zaitha 

aurivilliana (Colombie; Brésil; Vénézuéla); Zaitha bergi (1899 – Buenos-Ayres; Rio 

Grande); Zaitha elongata (1899 – Paraguay alta); Zaitha martini (1899 – Patagonie); …


HETEROPTERA varia: 

Alydus conspersus (1893); Anacanthopus (1894); Anacanthopus flavolimbatus (1894 - Iolo, 

Iles Philippines); Aphelocheirus denticeps (1910); Aphelocheirus sinensis (1892 – Chine: 

Ho-Chan, province de Ngan-Hoei); Aradellus fulvus (1907), Aradellus nigerrimus (1910); 

Aradellus pallidicornis (1907); Berytinus crassipes H.-S. var. intermedia (1887 – environs 

de Sinaia; Cruce; Dürnstein); Byrsinocoris (1900); Byrsinocoris nigroscutellatus (1900 – 

Environs de Biskra); Camptobrochis putoni (1885 – Dobroudja: Mãcin (Greci); Monast. de 

Cucoºu); Catoplatus dacicus (1895 – Plainesci. District de Rimnic Sarat); Catoplatus 

distinctus (1895 – Comana (District de Vlaºca); Cyclotynaspis (1892); Cyclotynaspis 

acalyptoides (1892 - Singapore); Cyphodema mendosa (1887 – Bilek, Herzégovine); 

Deraeocoris putoni (1885); Diaphorocoris (1897); Diaphorocoris notatus (1897 - Ceylan); 

Enithares bergrothi (1892 – Nouvelle Calédonie); Eurostus moutoni (1894 – Chine, Zo-sé; 

Ho-chan, province de Ngan Hoei); Eurostus ochraceus (1894 - Chine); Eurycera 

glabricornis (1892 – Mozambiques, Rikatla); Galeatus debilis (1887 – Bilek, Herzégovine); 

Galgulus vicinus (…Costa Rica el Coronel 750 m); Gelastocoris major (1910); Heleocoris 

breviceps (1897 – Indes orientales); Heleocoris elongatus (1897 – Indes orientales); 

Heleocoris naucoroides (1897 – Madagascar, 1883; Andrangoloaka); Heleocoris nebulosus 

(1909); Heleocoris obscuratus (1897 – Sumatra, Siboga); Holoptilus capensis; Hyoidea 

horvathi (1890 – Algérie: Oran); Kalama theryi (1897 – Saint-Charles, près Philippeville. 

Algérie); Laccocoraria (1897); Lasiotropis amplicosta (1897 – Tenied-el-Haad, mai 1892. 

cotype); Limnocoris horvathi (1900 – Pérou: Callanga); Lisarda geniculata; Lisarda pallida; 

Lisarda raffrayi; Matinus americanus (1899 - Esp. Santo, 1898); Matinus elongatus (1899 – 

Australie 1878); Matinus grandis (1899 – Australie); Matinus stali (1899 - &: Australie 

occidentale); Megochterus nasutus (1898); Monanthia putoni (1895 – Vallée du Berlad, 

dans les environs de Zorleni, Moldavie); Mononyx ampliatus (1899 – Nouvelle Guinée); 

Mononyx femoralis (1899 – Australie, Sidney, Champion Bay); Mononyx grossus (1899 – 

Thibet, Mou-pin; Se Tchouen); Mononyx intermedius (1899); Mononyx latus (1899 – 

Nanegal-Equateur); Mononyx lobatus (1899 – Sumatra, Pangherang Pisang; Java); Mononyx 

mixtus (1899 – Nouvelle Guinée; Nouvelle Bretagne 1889; Amboine 1859; Cap York; Port 

Denison Australie; Addelaide R.N.W. Australie); Mononyx peruvianus (1905 - Peru 

Callanga) ; Mononyx serratus (1897 – Carin Chebà, Carin Ghecù); Mononyx tuberculatus 

(1899 – &: Port Denison, Australie); Monosteira minutula (1897 – Taguin (province 

d’Alger), 1895); Myrmedobia bedeli (1887 - &: forêt de l’Edough. Algerie); Nagusta junodi 

(1892 - Rikatla); Nasocoris platycranoides (1890 – Algérie: Oran); Neuroctenus debilicornis 

(1892 – Gabon); Notopomus (1894); Notopomus isidorei (1894 – Pulo Pénang); 

Oncocephalus vaulogeri (1892 – Algérie: Oued Deurdeur, Juin 1892); Pelocoris magister 

(1898 – Novo Friburgo; Espirito Santo); Pelocoris minutus (1895 – Rio Apa alto); Pelocoris 

nitidus (1898 – Isthme de Darien, Lagune de Pita); Pelocoris politus (1895 – Rio Apa Alto, 

Paraguay); Pelocoris subflavus (1898 – Brésil, Rio Grande); Pelogonus nasutus (1898 – 

Australie 1846; El Boilvier 1897); Pelogonus splendidulus (1898 – Nanegal, Équateur); 

Phonergates junodi; Ploiariola xambeni (1885 – Montélimar Drôme); Psallus puberulus 

(1887 – Bilek. Herzégovine); Putoniella (1897); Putoniella vaulogeri (1897 – Sfax, 1896); 

Reduvius notabilipes (1892 - Obock); Saica fokkeri; Scipinia aculeata ?; Selenymenum 

(1894); Selenymenum contractum (1894 - Banana-Boma, Congo); Selenymenum piriforme 

(1894 – &: Freetown, Sierra-Leone); Sinea rileyi (1893 – Panamint Valley, California); 

Sphedanolestes sanguineus f. albosignatus; Stibaropus laevicollis (1897- Sfax, 1896); 

Temnostethus bucuresciensis (1895 – Bucarest, deux exemplaires sur un poirier à Filarete); 

Tessaratoma miscella (1894 – %: Loanda, &: Gabon); Tessaratoma viridans (1894); 

Tropidocheila pilosa amplicosta (1897 – Teniet el Haad); Vadimon bergrothi (1892 – 

Mozambique, Rikatla; Ogoué); … 

** For the first time in 1974 Pandele in his diploma project presents lists of taxa. We revised 

and completed these lists adding also, where it was possible the collecting data of the


materials that underlie for the species description too. For this purpose we used the original 

papers and specimens from the “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, and 

also some other information sources. In our lists we exerted to present the taxa bearing the 

original names given by Montandon. 

Given that none of the authors of this paper is an entomologist and general speaking the 

systematics of insecta and especially of Heteroptera was many times changed in the last 

hundred years, we present the Heteroptera grouped in families with a large number of taxa 

only. These taxa are presented aphabetically. 

We marked with bold the new genera. 

Annex II: Some taxa dedicated to A.-L. Montandon 

HETEROPTERA: Abedus montandoni De Carlo; Anoplocnemis montandoni Distant; 

Aphelocheirus montandoni Horváth; Aradus montandoni Reuter, 1885; Artagerus 

montandoni Bergroth; Caternaultiella montandoni; Cliduchus montandoni Bergroth; 

Compseuta montandoni Distant, 1904; Compseuta montandoni simulans Horvath, 1910; 

Curicta montandoni Martin, 1898; Dictyla montandoni (Horvath, 1885); Dicyphus 

montandoni Reuter, 1888; Glossopelta montandoni Handlirsch, 1897; Hallodapus 

montandoni Reuter, 1895; Heleocoris bengalensis montandoni Lundblad, 1933; Isoplatys 

montandoni; Laccocoris montandoni Izzard, 1936; Macrotylus montandoni Reuter, 1900; 

Monanthia montandoni Horvath, 1885; Monanthia montandoni var. rivalis Horvath, 1885; 

Montandoneus Kirkaldy, 1904; Montandonia Haglund, 1894; Montandoniella Puton, 1888; 

Montandoniella Schouteden, 1904; Montandoniola Poppius, 1909; Montandonista 

Kirkaldy, 1901; Montandonistella Schouteden, 1905; Mormidea montandoni Kirkaldy; 

Myrmedobia montandoni Reuter; Nerthra montandoni Melin, 1930; Notonecta montandoni 

Kirkaldy, 1897; Potamometra montandoni Kirkaldy, 1899; Psallus montandoni Reuter, 

1894; Pseudoponsila montandoni; Reduvius montandoni Reuter; Severiniella montandoni 

Breddin, 1898; Thaumastaneis montandoni Kirkaldy & Edwards, 1902; Tuponia 

montandoni Reuter, 1899; … 

INSECTA varia: Apion montandoni Desbrochers; Barynotus montandoni Pic; Callimenus 

montandoni Burr, 1898; Cardiocondyla montandoni Santschi; Chamaesphecia montandoni 

Le Cerf, 1922; Claviger montandoni Raffray; Elater montandoni Buysson; Malthinus 

montandoni Pic; Otiorrhynchus montandoni Solari; Phosphaenopterus montandoni 

Bourgeois; Montandonia Jacquet, 1886; … 

Another Taxa: Barylestis montandoni (Lessert, 1929); Clausilia montandoni (Sturany); 

Molge montandoni = Triturus montandoni (Boulenger); Strigillaria fraudigera var. 

montandoni Sturany; Vipera montandoni = Vipera ammodytes montandoni (Boulenger); 

Xerophila montandoni Clessin, 1886; …


Fig. 1 – Original drawings of Montandon from „Nouvelles espèces de Coréides de l’Amérique 

intertropicale” (Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 1895).


Fig. 2 – Excursions en Dobroudja (Angers, 1887).


Fig. 3 – Original inventory of the Montandon Heteroptera collection (fragments).


Fig. 4 – General Exhibition 1906. “ Mines et Carrières” pavilion. 

Fig. 5 – Montandon’s house, built 1909. 2 Fabrica de Chibrituri Str., Bucharest. 

(foto G. Andrei, 2004)


Fig. 6 – A. L. Montandon, August 1911.

ARNOLD - LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 – 1922 - Travaux

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