Pierre H.A. Jolivet, the spiritus rector of leaf beetle research, with a list of his publications

Since more than half a century, Pierre Hippolyte Auguste Jolivet has been the inspiring head of the community of leaf beetle researchers (Fig. 1). He promoted research on Chrysomelidae not only by his nearly 500 publications (see list below), but even more so by his personal input to the international and European symposia on leaf beetles, and especially by the six volumes he co-edited (nos. 274, 316, 338, 339, 340, 445 of the list below) and the three he (co-)authored (nos. 329, 347, 389). Besides his numerous papers and books on leaf beetles, he has also published on ants, especially ant-plant interactions, on parasites of insects, and on broader topics, such as evolution. In 2005, Pierre initiated the project of a series of volumes, edited by him and the two of us, for which we agreed on the title Research on Chrysomelidae (RoC). The first two volumes appeared with Brill Academic Publishers, the following volumes as special issues of ZooKeys with Pensoft. Now, Pierre has decided to resign from his post as senior editor, and the two of us decided to dedicate the present volume 5 of RoC to honour him. Pierre Jolivet was born on October 12, 1922, two o’clock in the morning, as he reports in his autobiography (Jolivet 2006, no. 421), in Avranches (Manche department, Lower Normandy). He entered the University of Rennes in 1941, where he studied zoology and botany. He received his bachelor in 1943 with a thesis (Diplôme d’Etudes ZooKeys 547: 1–33 (2015)