Jean-Charles Jacobs

{{Short description|Belgian entomologist (1821–1907)}}

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Jean-Charles Jacobs (1821 – 1907) was a Belgian doctor and entomologist, a pupil of Constantin Wesmael. He graduated in medicine from the University of Brussels, but never abandoned the study of insects, and was one of the founders of the Société entomologique de Belgique. He concentrated on the Hymenoptera, often in collaboration with Jules Tosquinet, turning to Diptera later in life.{{cite journal|url=http://www.fusagx.be/zg/Notes%20fauniques/pdf%20zoologie/1301-1350/1331.pdf |author=Alain Pauly |title=Bibliographie des Hyménoptères de Belgique précédée de notices biographiques (1827–2000). Première partie |journal=Notes Faunistique de Gembloux |volume=44 |year=2001 |pages=37–84 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927163448/http://www.fusagx.be/zg/Notes%20fauniques/pdf%20zoologie/1301-1350/1331.pdf |archive-date=September 27, 2007 }} Among his later studies was a report{{cite encyclopedia | title=Zoologie: Insectes. Diptères. Bibionidae, Chironomidae, Culicidae, Tipulidae, Syrphidae, Muscidae, Rhyphidae, Anthomyidae | encyclopedia=Résultats du Voyage du S.Y. Belgica en 1897-1898-1899 sous le commandement de A. de Gerlache de Gomery: Rapports Scientifiques (1901-1913) | publisher=Buschmann | access-date=2013-04-23 | author=Jacobs, J.-Ch. | editor=Commission de la Belgica | year=1906 | volume=1901-1913 | location=Antwerp | language=French | url=http://www.vliz.be/imis/oma/imis.php?refid=63680}} on the insects collected by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, including that continent's largest fully terrestrial animal, the fly Belgica antarctica .{{cite journal |author=J.-C. Jacobs |year=1900 |title=Diagnoses d'insectes recueillis par l'Expédition antarctique Belge. Diptera |journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique |volume=44 |pages=106–107}}