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Ruggero Verity or Roger Verity (20 May 1883 – 4 March 1959) was an Anglo-
Italian
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entomologist who specialised in
butterflies and a
physician
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.
Life
Roger Verity was born in
Florence
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on 20 May 1883, the elder son of Richard Henry Manners Verity (1844–1926) and his wife Matilda daughter of Cav. Sebastiano
Fenzi
The Fenzi Bank and family were key players in both the economic growth of the Italian industrial revolution and the expansion of the north Italian Railways between Florence and Livorno in 18th and 19th century Italy.
The Family
The old Florentin ...
and Emily Verity.
[*Verity Family Records at Glamorgan Archives D/DXcb and DXBT] Roger Verity married, on 1 June 1922, Donna Giulia dei Principi Gallarati–Scotti (20 November 1887 – 17 June 1938) daughter of Don Gian Carlo, Prince di Molfetta, Duca di San Pietro in Galatina, and Luigia Melzi D'Eril dei Duchi di Lodi.
Roger Verity was a
lepidopterist
Lepidopterology ()) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies. Someone who studies in this field is a lepidopterist or, archaically, an aurelian.
Origins
Post-Renaissance, t ...
and the author of over 150 papers and books including ''Rhopalocera Palaeartica. Papilionidae and Pieridae'' (1905–1911, 454 pages), ''Le Farfalle diurne d’Italia'' (Butterflies of Italy (volumes, 1940–1953, 1688 pages) and ''Les variations géographiques et saisonnières des Papillons diurnes en France'' (Geographic and seasonal variation of the butterflies of France) (three volumes, 476 pages).
He was responsible for the naming of two to three thousand butterflies, his collection of close to 250,000 butterflies many purchased from the dealerships
"Staudinger Bang-Haas" and
Orazio Querci
Orazio Querci (1875, Rome –1970) was an Italian entomologist mainly interested in butterflies.
Querci established a butterfly dealership in Florence.
He supplied World butterflies to many museums including the Natural History Museum, London , ...
together with his library is now in
La Specola
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museum in Florence.
He lived in Florence and at "Cicaleto" (Villa Verity) at
Caldine, He died 4 March 1959 and is buried at
Sofiana. There is a memorial in the family chapel at Cicaleto.
Roger Verity created the term "
exerges", writing: "
xergesalways inhabit different land-areas, except in particular cases, such as large mountain chains and plains, which afford very different surroundings and climates within the same area; they often consist in a long chain of races stretching even from one continent to another ..." The modern term is
cline
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Science
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.
Sources
*Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), ''Iconography of Italian Entomologists, With Essential Biographical Data''. Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75: 159–382
References
*Barsanti, G. and Chelazzi G ''Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università di Firenze'', Volume 1 Firenze University Press Electronic Version at Google Books. Portrait.
*Otakar Kudrna, 1983 An annotated catalogue of the butterflies named by Roger Verity. ''The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera''. 21 (1982): 1–10
*Otakar Kudrna and E. Balletto, 1984 An annotated catalogue of the skippers named by Roger Verity. ''The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera''. 23: 35–49
External links
Lepidopterology GalleryPortrait
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze
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1883 births
1959 deaths
Physicians from Florence
Italian lepidopterists
20th-century Italian zoologists
Scientists from Florence