Vincent Allard (18 December 1921 – 22 January 1994) was a Belgian entomologist. Born at Braine l'Alleud, south Brussels, Vincent Allard received his medical studies in France where he obtained several degrees from the University of Paris and Institut Pasteur in 1947 and 1948. In 1949 he was in the United States where he studied fungal diseases at the Harvard Medical School. Then he lived in Zaïre where he developed laboratories and was professor of histology general until 1975. He published several books and many works on Coleoptera. He had a very large collection of beetles, all accurately named. Books 1. The Beetles of the World, volume 6. Goliathini 2 (Cetoniidae), 1985, Sciences Nat, Venette 2. The Beetles of the World, volume 7. Goliathini 3 (Cetoniidae), 1986, Sciences Nat, Venette 3. The Beetles of the World, volume 11. Goliathini 4 (Cetoniidae), 1991, Sciences Nat, Venette 4. The Beetles of the World, volume 12. Cetoniini 2 (Cetoniidae), 1992 (with Jacques Rigout), Sciences Nat, Venette 5. The Beetles of the World, volume 17. Sternotomini (Cerambycidae), 1993, Sciences Nat, Venette 6. The Beetles of the World, volume 23. Schizorhinini 1 (Cetoniidae), 1995, Sciences Nat, Venette 7. The Beetles of the World, volume 24. Schizorhinini 2 (Cetoniidae), 1995, Sciences Nat, Venette 8. The Beetles of the World, volume 25. Schizorhinini 3 (Cetoniidae), 1997 (with Jacques Rigout), Hillside Books, Canterbury Works Here is the complete list of his works: 1983 - Notes sur le genre Coelorrhina Burmeister (Cetoniidae), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 36, pp. 3–5, 1 col. plate. 1984 - Notes sur les genres Stephanorrhina Burmeister et Aphelorrhina Westwood (Cetoniidae), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 43, pp. 7–9, 2 col. plates. 1985 - Réhabilitation de Eudicella gralli pauperata Kolbe, bona species, (nec trilineata" Quedf.) (Cetoniidae), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 46, p. 11. 1985 - Description d'une nouvelle sous-espèce de Amaurodes passerini Westwood (Cetoniidae), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 46, p. 16. 1985 - Description d'une espèce et d'une sous-espèce nouvelles du genre Stephanocrates Kolbe (Cetoniidae), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 46, pp. 16–17. 1985 - Description d'une nouvelle sous-espèce de Megalorrhina harrisi Westwood. (Cetoniidae), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 47, p. 1. 1985 - Description d'une nouvelle espèce du genre Eudicella White (Cetoniidae), Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 47, p. 2. 1985 - Réflexions sur la classification des groupes gralli et smithi du genre Eudicella White