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

Sartirana Lomellina

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, marquis de Breme

Breme

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 (30 April 1807 Milan

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 -23 January 1869 , Florence

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) was an Italian

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 naturalist

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 and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Diptera

Diptera

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He was a “sénateur” of the Société entomologique de France

Société entomologique de France

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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).

Source

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)