Amedeo John Engel Terzi

Amedeo John Engel Terzi

Amedeo John Engel Terzi (1872, Palermo -1956)was an Italian illustrator and entomologist specialising in Diptera.

He was the son of Andrea Terzi (-1931), a lithographer and illustrator.His brother, Aleardo Terzi, was also an insect artist working on the Italian National Encyclopedia Amedeo Terzi was engaged by Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922) as an illustrator for the London School of Tropical Medicine. He executed very numerous zoological illustrations , mostly of parasitic insects, principally Dipera, estimating that he had accomplished 37 000 drawings in the course of his career, in 55 books and more than 500 other publications.

In 1900, Terzi worked with Louis Sambon and George Carmichael Low on mosquitoes transmitting malaria at at Ostia.

In 1902 he joined the Natural History Museum.

References

[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/online-ex/art-themes/drawingconclusions/more/mosquito_more_info.htm] Peter Mattingly (1976). Amedeo John Engel Terzi, 1872-1956, "Mosquito Systematics", 8 (1) : 114-120.Wikipedia France

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