- Giovanni Passerini
Giovanni Passerini was an Italian
botanist andentomologist , born onJune 16 ,1816 or 1819 in Pieve di Guastalla. He died onApril 17 , 1893 inParma .Giovanni Passerini was a professor of
botany at the university of Parma. He is the author of several works on theaphids . His collection, of 5, 500 specimens in 52 genera kinds and 89species , is in the Natural history museum of the university of Parma.In 1875, he was the first president of the Italian section of the
Alpine Club .Works (partial)
*Gli insetti autori delle galle del Terebinto e del Lentisco insieme ad alcune specie congeneri. Giornale Giardini Orticolt. 3: 258-265 (1856).
*Gli afidi con un prospetto dei generi ed alcune specie nuove Italiane. Parma : Tipografia Carmignani 40 pp. (1860).
*Aphididae Italicae hucusque observatae. Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. 2: 129-212 (1863).
*Aphididae Italicae hucusque observatae. Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. 2: 129-212 (1863).
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