Ricardo García Mercet (16 August 1860 – 12 May 1933 was a Spanish

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

and

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

. He was a

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attached to the Spanish military. At various times he was a member of the

Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences The Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (Spanish: ''Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales'') is an academic institution and learned society that was founded in Madrid in 1847. It is dedicated to the study and research of mathematic ...

, President of Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (Spanish society of Natural history); Secretary general of Asociación Española para el Progreso de las Ciencias (Spanish Association for the progress of science) and an Honorary Member of the entomological societies of Egypt and Chile. His collections of

Chalcidoidea Chalcid wasps (, , for their metallic colour) are insects within the superfamily Chalcidoidea, part of the order Hymenoptera. The superfamily contains some 22,500 known species, and an estimated total diversity of more than 500,000 species, m ...

are conserved in

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales The National Museum of Natural Sciences () is a natural history museum in Madrid, Spain. Dependent on the Ministry of Science, it is one of the National Museums of Spain, and it is managed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Histo ...

in Madrid and the

Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the Ecosphere (planetary), ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the Scientific law, laws, elements and phenomenon, phenomena of the physic ...

in Genoa.

Works

1921 Fauna ibérica Himenópteros, fam. encírtidos Madrid :Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturale

References

*Poggi, R.; Conci, C. 1996: ercet Garcia, R. ''Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital''., Genova 75 :73 *Viejo Montesinos, J. L. 1998: ercet Garcia, R.''Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural'' 1 122-134

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* Spanish entomologists 1933 deaths 1860 births {{Spain-scientist-stub