Frédéric LEGENDRE

Portrait Legendre Frederic
Frédéric LEGENDRE
Maître de Conférences
Chargé(e) de collection
Chargé(e) d’enseignement
Entité de rattachement
Evolution fonctionnelle et Taxonomie (EvoFoncT)
Recherches
Habilité(e) à diriger des recherches
Spécialité
Entomologie, Phylogénie, Evolution

Contact

Réseaux sociaux
Téléphone
01 40 79 81 26
01 40 79 56 79
Adresse(s)

45 rue Buffon
CP50
75005 Paris

Responsabilités dans l'unité

Responsable de l'équipe Evolution Fonctionnelle et Taxonomie

Responsabilités hors unité

Subject Editor de Zookeys

Section Editor de European Journal of Taxonomy

Collection(s)

Responsable des collections de Dictyoptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera, Mecoptera et Psocodea

Enseignement(s)

Co-responsable du parcours Systématique et Evolution dans le Master SEP

Phylogénie probabiliste (M1 et M2)

Graduate students

  • Corentin Jouault (PhD fellow, September 2021 - ) : Impact des interactions biotiques et des changements paléo-environnementaux sur la diversification des Neuropterida - co-direction avec Vincent Perrichot et Fabien Condamine.
  • Manuel Brazidec (PhD fellow, September 2021 - ) : Impact des optimums climatiques sur l'évolution des entomofaunes: le cas des guêpes chrysidoïdes - co-direction avec Vincent Perrichot.
  • Juliette Berger (PhD fellow, September 2020 - ) : Socialité et convergences évolutives: apport des données écomorphologiques et transcriptomiques - co-direction avec Philippe Grandcolas.
  • Julien Malem (PhD fellow, September 2019 - ) : Apports de la géologie dans l'analyse biogéographique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie - co-direction avec Tony Robillard et Dominique Cluzel.
  • Thomas Schubnel (PhD fellow, 2018 - 2021) : Evolution et homologie des ailes chez les insectes - co-direction avec André Nel et Laure Desutter.
  • Dominic Evangelista (NSF post-doctoral fellow, 2016-2018) : Phylogenomics and diversification in Blaberoidea. Co-advisor with Akito Kawahara.
  • Julien Troudet (October 2014 - November 2017) : Latitudinal Diveristy Gradient : the message of systematics through the biodiveristy databases - co-direction with Régine Vignes-Lebbe.
  • Sandra Goutte (PhD fellow, September 2010 - June 2014) : Adaptations to noisy torrent environments in frogs : combining morphological, eco-ethological and phylogenetic approaches - co-direction with Alain Dubois.

Undergraduate students (M2)

  • Thibaud Glinez (2022 - Master 2 - co-direction with Rosa Fernandez)
  • Hadrien Jouanne (2019 - Master 2 - co-direction with Rodolphe Rougerie)
  • Thomas Schubnel (2018 - Master 2 - co-direction with André Nel)
  • Julien Malem (2018 - Master 2 - co-direction with Tony Robillard)
  • France Thouzé (2016 - Master 2 Labex BCDiv- co-direction with Philippe Lopez)
  • Augustin Lafond (2014 - Master 2 - co-direction with Tony Robillard)

Presentation

My research deals with the evolution of insects. I reconstruct phylogenies before using them as a historical reference to test evolutionary hypotheses. Following this phylogenetic approach, I investigate the evolution of social behavior in termites and cockroaches (Insecta : Dictyoptera), and test biogeographic and diversification hypotheses.

Research interests

Nasutitermitinae, Soldiers and workers in Singapore © MNHN
Nasutitermitinae, Soldiers and workers in Singapore
Crédits: 
© MNHN

Nasutitermitinae, soldiers and workers in Singapore © MNHN

 

1. Social evolution in cockroaches and termites

In collaboration with E. Bornberg-Bauer (University of Münster, Germany), this project is supported by ANR and DFG. The PhD project of Juliette Berger is instrumental for this project

2. Biogeography of New-Caledonian insects

Confronting geological data with phylogenetic trees, Julien Malem (Phd student) investigates the spatial evolution of insects in New Caledonia

3. Factors of diversification in Neuropterida and Chrysidoidea

Combining tip-dating and diversification analyses, Corentin Jouault and Manuel Brazidec (Phd students) want to decipher the factors that have drived the diversification of two insect groups.

Grants

  • ANR-DFG PRCI SocioGenomics (226,700 € ANR + 196,200 € DFG) - 2020-2024.
  • Action Transversale du MNHN (25,000 €) - 2011-2018.
  • Lavoisier Grant (18,000 €), Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, December 2007 - December 2008.
  • Rosen Price (500 $), 3rd best student oral presentation, Hennig XXV, Oaxaca (Mexico), 2006.
  • Marie Stopes Student Travel Award (500 $) in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
  • Travel Grant from Paris Doctoral School ED 392 (1,000 €) in 2006 and 2007
  • PhD Grant, Ministère de l’Education nationale, de la Recherche et des Technologies, October 2004 - September 2007.
  • Master 2 Grant, Ministère de l’Education nationale, de la Recherche et des Technologies, October 2003 - June 2004.

CV

legendre_cv_2021.pdf Format (PDF) - 1.13 Mo

Terrains de recherche

  • Australia 2019. Collecting Blattidae in Queensland. 
  • New Caledonia 2016-2017. Our Planet Reviewed. Study of cockroach communitues and micro-endemism.
  • French Guiana 2015. Our Planet Reviewed. Collecting Orthopteroid Insects in Mitaraka.
  • Philippines 2014. Collecting Blaberidae and Blattidae cockroaches.
  • United States 2013. Collecting in Virginia (Jefferson National Forest).
  • Papua New Guinea 2012. Our Planet Reviewed, IBISCA Niugini. Collecting Orthopteroid Insects along an altitudinal transect on Mount Wilhelm.
  • New-Caledonia 2010. Rapid Assessment Program (Conservation International) on Mount Panié. In charge of Orthopteroïd Insects.
  • Indonesia 2010. Study of cockroach communities with emphasis on Perisphaerus sp. (Blaberidae : Perisphaeriinae).
  • Singapore 2009. Collecting cockroaches with a special emphasis on the subsocial species Perisphaerus flexicollis (Blaberidae : Perisphaeriinae).
  • United States 2008. Field observations and collecting of Tylopelta gibbera (Hemiptera : Membracidae) in Missouri.
  • French Guyana 2006. Study of cockroach communities on Kaw Mountain.

Publications

2023
  • Malem Julien, Robillard Tony, Cluzel Dominique, Bellier Loïc, Nattier Romain, Grandcolas Philippe & Legendre Frédéric, Juin 2023 — Origins of old lineages in New Caledonia: A geologically informed test of the islandhopping hypothesis. Journal of Biogeography. Jbi.14673. tex.earlyaccessdate: JUN 2023 tex.eissn: 1365-2699 tex.unique-id: WOS:001019467500001.
    ISSN: 
    0305-0270, 1365-2699
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14673
  • Brazidec Manuel, Legendre Frédéric & Perrichot Vincent, 2023 — Diversity and phylogeny of the extinct wasp subfamily Lancepyrinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) revealed by mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The Lancepyrinae are an extinct subfamily of Bethylidae known exclusively from Cretaceous amber deposits of Lebanon, Spain,... Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. Vol. 81, p. 345-369. Publisher: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.
    ISSN: 
    1863-7221
    https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/asp.81.e96737
  • Evangelista Dominic A., Nelson Dvorah, Varadínová ZuzanaKotyková & Legendre Frédéric, 2023 — Phylogenomics and deep convergence in cockroach hind-wing morphology. Abstract Despite regular advances in Blattodea systematics, several relationships remain controversial or untested in formal... Organisms Diversity & Evolution.
    ISSN: 
    1439-6092, 1618-1077
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-023-00609-8
  • Schubnel Thomas, Mazurier Arnaud, Nel André, Grandcolas Philippe, Desutter‐Grandcolas Laure, Legendre Frédéric & Garrouste Romain, 2023 — Flat does not mean 2D: Using Xray microtomography to study insect wings in 3D as a model for comparative studies. Abstract While not generally used for relatively flat structures, X-ray microtomography can provide decisive insights for... Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Vol. n/a, n/a, 2041–210X.14132. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
    ISSN: 
    2041-210X, 2041-210X
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14132
  • Hollier John, Marshall Judith, Legendre Frédéric & Poggi Roberto, 2023 — An annotated list of the Blattodea (Insecta) described by Henri de Saussure. Part 3: the Blattidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. Vol. 130, n° 1, p. 77-88. Publisher: Muséum d’histoire naturelle tex.hal_id: mnhn-04172951 tex.hal_version: v1.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0089
2022
  • Jouault Corentin, Engel Michael S, Legendre Frédéric, Huang Diying, Grandcolas Philippe & Nel André, Octobre 2022 — Incrementing and clarifying the diversity and early evolution of termites (Blattodea: Isoptera). Abstract The past diversity of Isoptera is relatively poorly documented. Many early-diverging families are only represented... Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Vol. 196, n° 2, p. 608-629.
    ISSN: 
    0024-4082, 1096-3642
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac064
  • Jouault Corentin, Nel Andre, Legendre Frederic & Condamine Fabien L., Juillet 2022 — Estimating the drivers of diversification of stoneflies through time and the limits of their fossil record. INSECT SYSTEMATICS AND DIVERSITY. Vol. 6, n° 4. Number: 4 tex.eissn: 2399-3421 tex.orcid-numbers: Legendre, Frederic/0000-0001-5900-8048 Jouault, Corentin/0000-0002-3680-5172 tex.researcherid-numbers: Legendre, Frederic/B-5101-2013 tex.unique-id: WOS:000836427400001.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixac017
  • Jouault Corentin, Engel Michael S., Huang Diying, Berger Juliette, Grandcolas Philippe, Perkovsky Evgeny E., Legendre Frédéric & Nel André, Mai 2022 — Termite Valkyries: Soldier-Like Alate Termites From the Cretaceous and Task Specialization in the Early Evolution of Isoptera. In several insect eusocial lineages, e.g., some aphids, thrips, ants, some stingless bees, and termites, task specialization is... Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Vol. 10, p. 737367.
    ISSN: 
    2296-701X
    https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.737367
  • Jouault Corentin, Legendre Frédéric, Condamine Fabien L., Pouillon Jean-Marc & Nel Andre, 2022 — A new mid-Cretaceous fossil genus of stonefly (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from the Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research. Vol. 133, p. 105138.
    ISSN: 
    01956671
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105138
  • Jouault Corentin, Legendre Frédéric, Perrichot Vincent, Condamine Fabien L. & Nel André, 2022 — Redescription of Litholingia rhora Ren, 2002 (Neuroptera: Grammolingiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou. Palaeoentomology. Vol. 5, n° 1, p. 20-26.
    ISSN: 
    2624-2834, 2624-2826
    https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.1.3
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