Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme (or François de Brême, or François Gattineau de Brême, or Ferdinando Arborio di Gattinara), Duc de Sartirana Lomellina, marquis de

Breme Breme (Lombard language, Lombard: ''Bräm'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italy, Italian region Lombardy, located about southwest of Milan and about west of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 8 ...

(30 April 1807 in

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– 23 January 1869 in

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) was an Italian naturalist and

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 ...

and

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

. He was a “sénateur” of the

Société entomologique de France The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. The society was founded in 1832 in Paris, France. The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832. The first ...

and president of that society in 1844.

Works

*''Essai Monographique et Iconographique de la Tribu des Cossyphides''. Paris : Lacheze (1842). * Note sur le genre Ceratitis de Macleay. ''Ann. Soc. Entomol. de France'' 11: 183-90(1842).

Sources

Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75 : 159-382. French Wikipedia (Translation) {{DEFAULTSORT:Breme, Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Italian entomologists Dipterists 1807 births 1869 deaths Presidents of the Société entomologique de France Nobility from Milan 19th-century Italian zoologists Scientists from Milan