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Longinos Navás (7 March 1858 Cabacés, Tarragona – 31 December 1938
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) was a
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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
Plecoptera Plecoptera is an order of insects, commonly known as stoneflies. Some 3,500 species are described worldwide, with new species still being discovered. Stoneflies are found worldwide, except Antarctica. Stoneflies are believed to be one of the mos ...
and
Neuropteroidea The Neuropterida are a clade, sometimes placed at superorder level, of holometabolous insects with over 5,700 described species, containing the orders Neuroptera (lacewings, antlions), Megaloptera (alderflies, dobsonflies), and Raphidioptera ( ...
. Father Longinos Navás was a Jesuit priest. He published extensively on the Neuroptera fauna of Spain in ''Memorias de la Real. Academia Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona''.His papers on worldwide fauna are published in this, other Spanish, German, Italian and American entomological journals.Navás described very many new species. His Neuroptera are in th
Museu de Ciències Naturals, Museum of Natural Sciences
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. His Lepidoptera collections are i
Museo Paleontologico de la Universidad de Zaragoza
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References

*Musgrave, A. 1932 ''Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775-1930''. Sydney.


External links


Archive.org
Scan of ''Neurópteros de España y Portugal'' (1908)
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Scan of Navás, L. 1912. Insectos neurópteros nuevos o poco conocidos. Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona (3)10:135-202.
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Scan of Navás, L. 1912. ''Notas sobre Mirmeleónidos (Ins. Neur.)''. Brotéria (Zoológica) 10:29-75, 85-97.
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Scan of ''Sinopsis de los ascaláfidos : (Ins. Neur.)'' (1913)
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Scan of ''Crisopids d'Europa (ins. neur.)'' .. (1915)
Ephemeroptera
Papers including Ephemeroptera
Neuroptera of Florida
Papers on American Neuroptera
DEI ZALF
Further references Spanish entomologists 1858 births 1938 deaths {{entomologist-stub