Pietro Stefanelli (30 July 1835,
Florence
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– 23 December 1919, Florence) was an Italian Professor of
Entomology. mainly interested in
Lepidoptera and
Odonata
Odonata is an order of flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies. Members of the group first appeared during the Triassic, though members of their total group, Odonatoptera, first appeared in Late Carboniferous.
The two com ...
.He was a founding member of the
Italian Entomological Society. He was also instrumental in the early development of
Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria being especially concerned with pest species of Lepidoptera.His collection of foreign and Italian Lepidoptera is in the Zoological Museum
La Specola
The Museum of Zoology and Natural History, best known as La Specola, is an eclectic natural history museum in Florence, central Italy, located next to the Pitti Palace. The name '' Specola'' means observatory, a reference to the astronomical obser ...
and in the Istituto
Istituto Sperimentale per la Zooogia Agraria.
Sources
*Conci, C. & Poggi, R. 1996: Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. ''Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital.'' 75 159–382.418 figures.Portrait.
*Poggi, R. & Conci, C. 1996: Stefanelli, P.] '' Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital.'' 75:107
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Italian entomologists
1835 births
1919 deaths
Scientists from Florence