Charles Kerremans, Belgian entomologist and member
of the Societe entomologique de France,
specialised in the Coleoptera (beetles) and in particular made outstanding
contributions (in French) to the literature on the family Buprestidae (jewel or
metallic wood-borers). Among others he described collections of this family
from Brazil (1897), Madagascar (1898), the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, 1904, 1909, 1914), the Seychelles (1914) and German East
Africa (now Uganda, 1914). His main contribution, however, was a monumental
work, Monographie des Buprestides
(1906-1914), published in parts. He attempted to monograph the whole family and
managed to complete Part 1 of Volume 7 before his death. This work gave a
modern structure to buprestid higher classification.
Kerremans published an account of the "Buprestides
du Musee de Pretoria" in the Annals of
the Transvaal Museum (1911, Vol. 3(1), pp. 84-92). A few years after his
death a description by him of the Buprestides of German South West Africa (now
Namibia) was published in Beitraege zur
Kenntnis der Land- und Suesswasserfauna Deutsch Suedwestafrikas (1918, Vol.
1, pp. 295-303).
