Flaminio Baudi di Selve (7 July 1821,
Savigliano – 26 June 1901,
Genoa
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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
Coleoptera
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
but also
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 Europae et circummediterraneae Faunae
Tenebrionidum specierum, quae Comes Dejean in suo Catalogo, editio 3, consignavit, ejusdem collectione in R. Taurinensi Musaeo asservata, cum auctorum hodierne recepta denominatione collatio. Pars tertia. ''Dtsch. Entomol. Z''. 20: 225–267 (1876), ''Catalogo dei coleotteri del Piemonte'' Torino, Tip. e. Lit. Camilla E. Bertolero (1889) and very many shorter works on beetles. He described many new
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
.
His insect collection, mainly
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
is shared between
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova,
Turin Museum of Natural History and
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Regione Piemonte
References
*Conci, C. 1975 Repertorio delle biografie e bibliografie degli scrittori e cultori italiani di entomologia. ''Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital''. 48 1969 (4) 817–1069, 841.
*Conci, C. & Poggi, R. 1996: Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. ''Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital.'' 75 159–382.418 figures.Portrait.
External links
Important Works on Staphylinidaepdf
Internet ArchiveDigitised ''Catalogo dei coleotteri del Piemonte''
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Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Regione PiemonteDEI ZALF
Portrait, obituary and biography list.
1821 births
1901 deaths
People from Savigliano
Italian entomologists
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