Raffaello Gestro
Encyclopedia
Raffaello Gestro (21 March 1845 , Genoa
- 6 June 1936 , Genoa )
was an Italian
entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera
Gestro was the Director of the Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria
Genoa where his collection is conserved. He was a Member and President of the Italian Entomological Society
Indicating the amount and origin of insects collected for Genoa Natural History Museum from 1874-1895
Taxonomic
Genoa
Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
- 6 June 1936 , Genoa )
was an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera
Gestro was the Director of the Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria
Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria
Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria, in Italian, Museo di storia naturale Giacomo Doria is a natural history museum in Genoa, Italy. It is named for the naturalist Giacomo Doria....
Genoa where his collection is conserved. He was a Member and President of the Italian Entomological Society
La Società Entomologica Italiana
La Società Entomologica Italiana, the Italian Entomological Society, is Italy’s foremost society devoted to the study of insects. The society is famous for promoting applied entomology and many of its past members have saved millions from deadly diseases such as malaria.The society was founded on...
Works
Expedition InsectsIndicating the amount and origin of insects collected for Genoa Natural History Museum from 1874-1895
- 1874, 1876. Enumerazione dei Cetonidi raccolti nell´ Archipelago Malese e nella Papuasia dai signori G. DoriaGiacomo DoriaMarquis Giacomo Doria was an Italian naturalist and politician.He was the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa in 1867, and director from then until his death...
O. BeccariOdoardo BeccariOdoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist perhaps best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878...
e L. M. D´AlbertisLuigi D'AlbertisLuigi Maria D'Albertis was a flamboyant Italian naturalist and explorer who, in 1876, became the first person to chart the Fly River in Papua New Guinea. He took eight weeks to steam some 580 miles up the Fly River in an Australian launch, the Neva. On board as engineer was young Lawrence...
e A. A. Bruyn. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 6: 487-535,8: 512-524, 9: 83-100. - 1878. Contribuzione allo studio dei Cetonidi della regione Austro-Malese.Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 12: 26-31.
- 1881. Spedizione Italiana Africa Equatoriale (1880-1884). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 16: 204.
- 1888. Viaggio di Leonardo FeaLeonardo FeaLeonardo Fea was an Italian explorer, zoologist, painter and naturalist.Fea was born in Turin, and became an assistant at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova the Museum of Natural History in Genoa...
in Birmania e regioni vicine. IV. Nuove speciedi Coleotteri. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 26: 87-132, figs. - 1889 Viaggio ad Assab nel Mar Rosso dei Signori G. Doria ed O. Beccari con il R. Avviso “Esploratore” dal 16 Novembre 1879 al 26 Febbraio 1880. IV. Coleotteri. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Serie 2a) 7(27):5-72.
- 1890. Sopra alcune Cetonie dell´isola Nias e della costa occidentale di Sumatra raccolte dal Dott. Elio Modigliani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova: 93-99.
- 1891. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. XXXVII.Enumerazione delle Cetonie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova ser. 2,vol. 10: 835-876. pl. II.
- 1893. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria della Papuasia orientale, X, Nuove specie di Coleotteri Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova ser. 2, vol. 13: 285-293.
- 1895. Esplorazione del Giuba. 16. Coleotteri. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova(2a) 15 (35): 247-478.
- 1895 Esplorazione del Giuba e dei suoi affluenti compiuta dal Cap. V. BottegoVittorio BottegoVittorio Bottego was an Italian army officer and one of the first Western explorers of Jubaland in the Horn of Africa , where he led two expeditions. Bottego was born in Parma....
(1892-93), Coleotteri XVI, Fam. Buprestidae. Annali del Museuo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2) 15:247-478 (338-350).
Taxonomic
- 1910. Pars 1. Rhysodidae and Pars 5. Cupedidae, Paussidae.in S. Schenkling (ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin.