Antonio Giordani Soika (9 May 1913 – 2 January 1997) was an Italian entomologist, ecologist and director of the Civic Museum of Natural History of Venice (''Museo Civico di Storia Naturale''). He had a long career in which he worked on various groups of insects but much of his work was on the

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

. He made great contributions to the knowledge of Neotropical wasps, especially

potter wasp Potter wasps (or mason wasps), the Eumeninae, are a cosmopolitan wasp group presently treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the past as a separate family, Eumenidae. Recognition Most eumenine species are black or brown, ...

s for which he produced many taxonomic keys and also monographs on the systematics of the wasp family

Vespidae The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as ''Polistes fuscatus'', ''Vespa orientalis'', and ''Vespula germanica'') and many solitary wasps. Each ...

Publications

Below is a partial list of the extensive published work of Antonio Giordani Soika: *1941 Studi sui Vespidi solitari VI. ''Studio di alcuni tipi di vespidi solitary Boll. Mus .Civ. Stor. nat. Venezia'' 2 *1942 Monografia degli Alastor etiopici (Hym. Vesp.). - ''Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft'' 032: 399-445 *1949 Studi sulle olocenosi - III. ''Boll. Soc. Ven. St. Nat. e Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Venezia'', 4: 62-99. *1950 Studi sulle olocenosi - V. ''Boll. Soc. Ven. St. Nat. e Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Venezia'', 5: 1-16. *1958 Notulae Vespidologicae. ''Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia'' 11: 35-102. *1968 Ergebnisse der zoologischen Nubien-Expedition 1962 Teil XXXVI Eumenidae. - ''Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien'' 72: 527-528. *1974 L'inquinamento della Laguna di Venezia: studio delle modificazioni chimiche e del popolamento sot-tobasale dei sedimenti lagunari negli ultimi vent'anni. ''Boll. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Venezia'', 26:25-68 (with G. Perin) *1974 Eumenidi di Socotra ed Abd-el-Kuri. ''Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia'' 25: 69-85. *1975 Sul genere Zeta (Sauss.). ''Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Venezia'' 27 : 111 – 135 *1976 Venezia e il problema delle acque alte. Suppl. vol. 27 ''Boll. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Venezia'', 118 p *1978 Revisione degli Eumenidi neotropicali appartenenti ai generi ''Eumenes'' Latr., ''Omicron'' Sauss., ''Pararhaphidoglossa'' Schulth. ed affini. ''Boll Mus Civ Stor Nat Venezia'' 29 1-420 *1978 Tabella per L'Identificazionedei Generi Europei della Faliglia Eumenidae (Hym. Vesp.)''Societa Veneziana di Scienze Naturali Lavori'' 3 30-41 *1989 Terzo contributo alla conoscenza degli eumenidi afrotropicali (Hymenoptera). ''Societa Veneziana di Scienze Naturali Lavori'' 14(1) *1990 Revisione degli Eumenidi neotropicali appartenenti ai generi ''Pachymenes'' Sauss., ''Santamenes'' n. gen, ''Brachymenes'' G.S., ''Pseudacaromenes'' G.S., ''Stenosigma'' G.S. e ''Gamma'' Zav. ''Boll Mus Civ Stor Nat Venezia'' 39 71-172 *1992 Di alcuni Eumenidi nuovi o poco noti (Hymenoptera Vespoidea). ''Lavori – Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali'' 17: 41-68.

Species named for Giordani Soika

The following species are some of those that have been in honour after Giordani Soika: the spider '' Euryopis giordanii'', the Eumenid wasp '' Subancistrocerus giordanii'', dolichopod fly '' Syntormon giordani'' and the carabid beetle '' Orotrechus giordanii''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Giordani Soika, Antonio Italian entomologists 20th-century Italian zoologists Hymenopterists 1913 births 1997 deaths