Antonio Garbiglietti (30 November 1807,
Biella
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– 24 January 1887,
Turin
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) was an Italian
entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
who specialised in
Heteroptera
The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. They are sometimes called "true bugs", though that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole. "Typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal al ...
. He wrote (1869). Catalogus methodicus et synonymicus et hemipterorum eteropterorum (Rhyngotha Fabr.) Italiae indigenarum. Accedit descriptio aliquot specierum vel minus vel nondum cognitarum. ''Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital.'' 1: 41-52, 105-124, 181-198, 271-281.
Garbiglietti was a physician.
His collection is held by the Dipartimento Biologia Animale, Università di Torino-
Turin Museum of Natural History
The Turin Museum of Natural History (Italian: ''Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino'' or MRSN) was established in 1978 to house the natural history collections of the University of Turin and other collections of natural history, origin ...
.
References
Schuh R. T., and Slater J. A. ''True bugs of the world (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Classification and natural history''. 1995. Cornell University Press Ithaca.
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Italian entomologists
1807 births
1887 deaths