Ermanno Giglio-Tos (25 March 1865 – 18 August 1926) was an

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

entomologist. Giglio-Tos was born at Chiaverano, Turin, and studied at the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

from 1886 until 1896 under

Michele Lessona Michele Lessona (20 September 1823, Venaria Reale, Piedmont – 20 July 1894, Turin) was an Italian zoologist. Michele Lessona became a specialist in amphibians. His accomplishments include the translation of certain works of Darwin, for examp ...

. Later he was a professor at the

University of Cagliari The University of Cagliari ( it, Università degli Studi di Cagliari) is a university in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. It was founded in 1606 and is organized in 11 faculties. History The ''Studium Generalis Kalaritanum'' was founded in 1606 alon ...

. He specialised in Diptera,

Mantodea Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They ha ...

, Phasmatodea, Orthoptera and

Blattodea Blattodea is an order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites. Formerly, termites were considered a separate order, Isoptera, but genetic and molecular evidence suggests they evolved from within the cockroach lineage, cladistically ...

. His collections are in the

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, origina ...

. He died, aged 61, in his home city of

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The ...

Publications

Partial list *''Ditteri del Messico'', 4 Volumes, Turin 1892–1895 *''Les problèmes de la vie. Essai d'une interprétation scientifique des phénomènes vitaux'', 4 Bände, Turin 1900–1910 *Publisher of the magazine ''Biologica'': Raccolta di scritti di Biologia, 1908 *''Una grave minaccia per Cagliari : la bonifica dello stagno di Santa Gilla proposta dall'ing''. Conti-Vecchi. Cagliari 1920

References

* M. Alippi Cappelletti: Giglio-Tos, Ermanno. In: ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', 54 * Nelson Papavero, Sergio Ibanez Bernal: Contributions to a history of Mexican dipterology – part 1. Entomologists and their work before the biologia centrali-americana. In:'' Acta Zoologica Mexicana''. 84, 2001, S. 115–173 .

External links

BDHL
Ditteri del Messico {{DEFAULTSORT:Giglio-Tos, Ermanno Italian entomologists 1865 births 1926 deaths University of Turin alumni Academic staff of the University of Cagliari