Ferdinando Maria Piccioli (26 July 1821 – 14 February 1900) was an Italian
entomologist. He specialised in
Hymenoptera and
Coleoptera.
Born at
San Felice, Piccioli was an “Assistant” at the
Stazione di Entomologia Agraria in
Florence
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. He was a member of the founding committee of
La Società Entomologica Italiana.
Part of his collections of
Tuscany
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Coleoptera are in the
Genoa Natural History Museum. The remainder of the Coleoptera and his Hymenoptera,
Diptera,
Lepidoptera and other Orders are in
La Specola
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museum.
He died at
Sesto Fiorentino in 1900.
References
*Conci, C. & Poggi, R. 1996: Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data.''Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital.'' 75 159–382, 418 Fig.159-382
1821 births
1900 deaths
People from Pistoia
Italian entomologists
Hymenopterists
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