Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti (13 February 1823, Florence

Florence

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 – 18 September 1902) was an Italian

Italy

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 entomologist who specialised in Homoptera

Homoptera

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. He was Professor of Botany

Botany

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 and Zoology

Zoology

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 in Florence, associated with Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze

Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze

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 where his collection remains today at La Specola. He was especially interested in pest species, mainly mealybugs, scale insect

Scale insect

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s and other pests that attack citrus

Citrus

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 and peach

Peach

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es. He described many new taxa.

He was a member of the founding committee of La Società Entomologica Italiana

La Società Entomologica Italiana

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.

Works

(partial list)

• 1867 Studii sulle Cocciniglie. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali. Milano 3: 1-87.
• 1868 (separate), 1869. Introduzione alla seconda memoria per gli studi sulle cocciniglie, e catalogo dei generi e delle specie della famiglia dei coccidi. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali 11: 721-738.
• 1876. [Mytilaspis flavescens sp. n., on orange and citron, Italy. (?=M. anguinus Boisd.).] (In Italian.) Annali di Agricoltura. (Ministero di Agricoltura, Industria e Commercio). Firenze, Roma 1876: 1-36.
• 1879. [Diaspis blankenhornii.] Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, Firenze 1879: 17, 32.
• 1879. Notizie e indicazioni sulla malattia del pidocchio della vite o della fillossera (Phylloxera vastatrix).Roma. Tipografia Eredi Botta 1879 (Estratto da "Annali di Agricoltura" 1879.Num.11). In 8°,
• 1881. Relazione intorno ai lavori della R. Stazione di Entomologia Agraria di Firenze per gli anni 1877-78. Parte scientifica. Fam. coccidi. Annali di Agricoltura. Ministero di Agricoltura, Industria e Commercio, Firenze, Roma No. 34: 134-161.
• 1884. Relazione intorno ai lavori della R. Stazione di Entomologia Agraria di Firenze per gli anni 1879-80. Article V. - omotteri. (In Italian). Annali di Agricoltura. Ministero di Agricoltura, Industria e Commercio, Firenze, Roma 1884 Nos 86-89: 383-414.
• 1886. Sull'insetto che danneggia i gelsi. Rivista di Bachicoltura (1885) 18: 1-3.
• 1886. Sull'insetto che danneggia i gelsi. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 19: 184-186.
• 1891 Animali ed insetti del tabacco in erba e del tabacco secco. Con 100 figure intercalate e 3 tavole litografiche. Firenze-Roma : Tip. dei fratelli Bencini.
• 1892. Aonidia blanchardi, nouvelle espèce de cochenille du dattier du Sahara. Memoires de la Société Zoologique de France 5: 69-82.