Orazio Querci (1875,

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–1970) was an

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mainly interested in

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

. Querci established a butterfly dealership in

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. He supplied World butterflies to many museums including the

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, the Museum of Philadelphia (via R.C. Williams), the Museum of Barcelon

and the Bocage Museum (National Museum of Natural History), Lisbon, Portuga

The

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holds a collection of Apennine Lepidoptera (" Querci-Romei" collection) and the Zoological Museum of the

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holds further specimens. Querci also supplied European butterflies to

Roger Verity Ruggero Verity or Roger Verity (20 May 1883 – 4 March 1959) was an Anglo-Italian entomologist who specialised in butterflies and a physician. Life Roger Verity was born in Florence on 20 May 1883, the elder son of Richard Henry Manners Verity ...

. Orazio Querci collected extensively in

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and

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also in

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Works

*Verity, R. & Querci, O. (1923): An annotated list of the races and seasonal polymorphism of the Grypocera and of the Rhopalocera of Peninsular Italy. ''Ent. Rec.'' 35 (Supplement)

References

*Cesare Conci and Roberto Poggi (1996) ''Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75: 159–382. {{DEFAULTSORT:Querci, Orazio Italian entomologists 1875 births 1970 deaths