Jacques Carayon (11 November 1916 – 1997) was a French entomologist, best known for his pioneering research into traumatic insemination.
[1] In 1946 and 1947, Carayon undertook expeditions to West Africa and Cameroon, and attended international entomological congresses across Europe and North America, before being elected to the Permanent Committee on International Entomological Congresses in 1980.
[1] In 1990, Carayon was involved in an automobile accident in Turkey, which left him in a coma, with physical injuries from which he never fully recovered.
[1] Upon Carayon's death in 1997, colleague James A. Slater wrote that "hemipterology has lost one of its greatest and certainly one of its most versatile students... Prof. Carayon unquestionably deserves a place, not only as one of the leaders in Hemipterology in this century, but as one of the leading figures in the entire history of the science.
"[1] Carayon undertook pioneering research into traumatic insemination,[1] and, in 1966, he was the first to suggest the spermalege structure in bedbugs as a female counter-adaptation.