Octave Parent

{{Short description|French entomologist}}

Abbé Octave Parent (15 June 1882, in Trescault – 9 February 1942, in Ambleteuse) was a French entomologist who specialized in Diptera, mostly the family Dolichopodidae.{{cite web|last1=Schubert|first1=Editha|title=Biographies of the Entomologists of the World|url=http://sdei.senckenberg.de/biographies/information.php?C_Name=21832|access-date=30 August 2016}} He became director of the Biological Station, Ambleteuse.{{cite journal|url=http://sdei.senckenberg.de/~openaccess/02163.pdf|page=134|volume=9|year=1942|issue=2|journal=Arb. Morphol. Taxon. Ent. Berlin-Dahlem|title=Aus der entomologischen Welt|access-date=30 August 2016}}

He published three papers, dated 1934, 1937 and 1940, concerning twenty-six new species of Hawaiian Campsicnemus. The type specimens of all the species described in the 1937 paper were deposited in the collection of the Hawaiian Entomological Society.{{cite journal|author=Neal L. Evenhuis|title=Lectotype designations for Hawaiian Campsicnemus Haliday (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) |journal=Bishop Museum Occasional Papers |volume=95 |pages=17–37 |year=2007 |series=Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2006 |url=http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/HBS-Records/pdf/op95.pdf }} The species Sigmatineurum parenti, found in Hawaii, is named in memory of Parent, "in honor of his foundational work with Hawaiian dolichopodids and for describing the genus Sigmatineurum".{{cite journal|url=http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pdf/sigmatineurum.pdf|title=The genus Sigmatineurum Parent in Hawaii (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a revised key to species|author=Neal L. Evenhuis|page=69|journal=Bishop Museum Occasional Papers |series=Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996 |volume=48|year=1997|access-date=30 August 2016}}