Napoleone Pini (1835,

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. Pini was born into an aristocratic family. He was an accountant. In 1872 he became a member of the Società Entomologica Italiana. In 1873 he was appointed member of the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali di Milano. In this Society he was Secretary since 1878. He was also a member of the Società Malacologica Italiana (1875-1895). The terrestrial molluscs were always his main interest. He specially studied the slugs of Lombardy. He wrote 17 works of malacology, in addition to a report on the '' Phylloxera'', the description of '' Cychrus cylindricollis'', '' Acme elegantissima'' and the collection of specimen for anatomical studies on '' Limax doriae''. Pini's mollusc collections were destroyed when Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano was damaged in 1943 by Allied bombings. His Coleoptera collections are held by

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, while a collection of 100 series of molluscs from southern Italy is held by

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Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat 14, p. 224-227 *Pini, N., 1874
Sopra una nuova Campylaea del gruppo della Helix cingulata Studer
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat 17, p. 41-54 *Pini, N., 1874
Osservazioni critiche alle osservazioni e rettifiche del Prof. P. Strobel
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat 17, p. 421-431 *Pini, N., 1875
Clausilia Spreafici Pini
Bull. Soc. Mal. It. 1, p. 164-165. *Pini, N., 1876
Molluschi terrestri e d'acqua dolce viventi nel territorio d'Esino
Bull. Soc. Mal. It. 2, 67-206, 2 tavv. *Pini, N., 1876 -
Notizie malacologiche relative alla fauna lombarda
Atti Soc. It. Sc. nat. 19, p. 493-499 *Pini, N., 1878
Nuove specie o forme poco note di Molluschi. Contribuzione alla Fauna malacologica d'Italia
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 21, p. 612-628. *Pini, N., 1878
Contribuzione alla fauna fossile postpliocenica della Lombardia
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 21, p. 774-779 *Pini, N., 1879
Appunti malacologici. Sopra alcune forme di conchiglie italiane pubblicate come nuove specie nel Vol. V del Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 22, p. 156-175 *Pini, N., 1879
Relazione annuale della Commissione di sorveglianza contro la Fillossera, sul servizio delle vedette nell'anno 1879
Atti Soc. It. Sc. nat. XXII, 337. *Pini, N., 1879
Argomentazioni di Napoleone Pini sulle due parole del Dott. Carlo De Stefani intorno ad alcune Clausilie toscane
Bull. Soc. Mal. It. 5, 237-261. *Pini, N., 1883 -
Nuova contribuzione alla fauna fossile postpliocenica della Lombardia
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 26, p. 48-70 *Pini, N., 1883
Nuove forme di Clausilie italiane
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 26, p. 137 - 143 *Pini, N., 1883
Un po' di luce sulla Hyalina obscurata Porro
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 26, p. 389-404 *Pini, N., 1884
Note malacologiche sulla fauna italiana
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 27, p. 79 - 87 *Pini, N. 1884
Novità malacologiche
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 27, p. 230-256) *Pini, N., 1884 - Novità malacologiche. 2a Nota. Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 27, p. 368-382, tav. 12] *Pini, N. 1885
Due nuove forme di Helix italiane del gruppo della Variabilis Drap.
Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 28, p. 165-168 *Pini, N., 1886 - Nuova forma di Acme italiana (Acme elegantissima Pini) - Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 29, p. 521-522

References

* Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data.Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75 : 159-382. * Eugenio Bettoni, Prodromi della faunistica Bresciana, Appollonio, 1884. * Cianfanelli and Manganelli - "A bibliography of Marianna Paulucci"

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pini, Napoleone Italian zoologists Italian entomologists 1835 births 1907 deaths