Pietro Mansueto Ferrari
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Pietro Mansueto Ferrari
was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Hemiptera
, paricularly Homoptera
.
He is not to be confused with Johann Angelo Ferrari
also an entomologist.
Pietro Ferrari was a physician
.
He wrote:
and many other works describing new species. His collection including all his types
is conserved in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova
was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Hemiptera
Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...
, paricularly Homoptera
Homoptera
Homoptera is a deprecated suborder of order Hemiptera; recent morphological studies and DNA analysis strongly suggests that the order is paraphyletic. It was therefore split into the suborders Sternorrhyncha, Auchenorrhyncha, and Coleorrhyncha....
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He is not to be confused with Johann Angelo Ferrari
Johann Angelo Ferrari
Johann Angelo Ferrari Johann Angelo Ferrari Johann Angelo Ferrari (1806-18 May 1876, Vienna was an Austrian entomologist born in Italy who specialised in Coleoptera especially ScolytidaeHe is not to be confused with Pietro Mansueto Ferrari also a entomologist....
also an entomologist.
Pietro Ferrari was a physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
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He wrote:
- Cicadaria agri ligustici. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturales di Genova 18: 75-165 (1882)
- Materiali per lo studio della fauna Tunisina raccoltida G. e L. Doria. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturales di Genova. 1: 439-522 (1884)
- Rincoti omotteri raccolti nell'Italia centrale e meridionale dal Prof. G. Cavanna. Bullettino della Societá Entomologica Italiana. Firenze. 17: 269-92 (1885)
- Elenco dei rincoti Sardi che si trovano nella collezione del Museo Civico di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturales di Genova. 6: 545-70 (1888)
- Res ligusticae XIX. Elenco dei rincoti ligustici (Emitteri e Cicadarii) fin'ora osservati. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturales di Genova. 12: 549-576
and many other works describing new species. His collection including all his types
Holotype
A holotype is a single physical example of an organism, known to have been used when the species was formally described. It is either the single such physical example or one of several such, but explicitly designated as the holotype...
is conserved in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova
The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova is a natural history museum in Genoa, northern Italy.-External links:*...