Philippe Cuénoud
![Philippe Cuénoud with a [[three-toed sloth]] in [[Panama]], 2006.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Sloth_in_San_Lorenzo_Panama.jpg)
Philippe Cuénoud (born July 8, 1968) is an entomologist and botanist of Swiss and Ukrainian descent, living in Onex (near Geneva), who worked on the Psocoptera of Switzerland
and Papua New Guinea, as well as on plant phylogeny.
He found the only recently known population of ''Lachesilla rossica'' near Geneva (the species has been described from southern Russia and may still exist there) and contributed further to the knowledge of the flora and fauna of the canton of Geneva with the first mention of a slender-billed gull (a Mediterranean bird species usually absent form Switzerland) and with the discovery of the first reported population of small-leaved helleborines. He also participated in a multidisciplinary study of the free-living fauna and flora of Basel's Zoo. In a 1999 trip to Brasil with Alain Chautems, he was among the first few people to see the newly rediscovered flower Sinningia araneosa, that had gone missing for more than a century.
In 2022, he joined Onex's City Council to help better protect a population of autumn lady's-tresses.
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1by Yves Basset, Lukas Cizek, Philippe Cuénoud, Raphael K Didham, Vojtech Novotny, Frode Ødegaard, Tomas Roslin, Alexey K Tishechkin, Jürgen Schmidl, Neville N Winchester, David W Roubik, Henri-Pierre Aberlenc, Johannes Bail, Héctor Barrios, Jonathan R Bridle, Gabriela Castaño-Meneses, Bruno Corbara, Gianfranco Curletti, Wesley Duarte da Rocha, Domir De Bakker, Jacques H C Delabie, Alain Dejean, Laura L Fagan, Andreas Floren, Roger L Kitching, Enrique Medianero, Evandro Gama de Oliveira, Jérôme Orivel, Marc Pollet, Mathieu Rapp, Sérvio P Ribeiro, Yves Roisin, Jesper B Schmidt, Line Sørensen, Thomas M Lewinsohn, Maurice LeponceGet full text
Published 2015-01-01
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