Anastase Alfieri (23 March 1892
Alexandria
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– 1971
Cairo
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) was an Italian
entomologist who worked principally on
Coleoptera but, also, with
Hermann Preisner, on
Heteroptera. Most of his work was on the fauna of
Egypt
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. His collection is shared between the natural history museum in Tutzing
:de:Tutzing and the
National Museum of Natural History
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in Washington D.C. (Smithsonian).
His principal works are
*The Coleoptera of Egypt. ''Mem. Soc. Entomol. Egypt''. 5:38.(1976)
*with Hermann Preisner A review of the Hemiptera Heteroptera known to us from Egypt. ''Bulletin de la Société Fouad Ier d’Entomologie'' 37:1-119.(1953).
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Italian entomologists
Italian expatriates in Egypt
1892 births
1971 deaths
20th-century Italian zoologists