- Alessandro Trotter
Alessandro Trotter (26 July 1874 ,
Udine –22 July 1967 ,Vittorio Veneto ) was an Italianbotanist andentomologist who pioneered in cecidology, the study of plant galls.Alessandro Trotter was the son-in-law of
Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845-1920).His first work on cecidology dated back to 1897 (when he was 21 yrs old) and he reported 124 galls of which 21 were caused by eriophyid mites. Trotter travelled around Italy between 1899 and 1909 and described 742 galls in 20 papers. At the age of 28 he founded a journal called Marcella in honour of Marcello Malphigi which dealt with cecidology. [Bernini, Fabio (2002) Acarid Phylogeny and Evolution: Adaptation in Mites and Ticks. Springer. ISBN 1402004656 pp. 7-8] He later became professor of
plant pathology at theUniversity of Naples and wrote more than 400 publications with nearly 110 onplant galls . He described several new species ofCynipidae andCecidomyiidae some withJean-Jacques Kieffer .Works
Partial List
*"Flora Italica Cryptogamica". Pars I: Fungi. Fasc. IV. Uredinales (Genera: Uromyces et Puccinia). 144 pp. (1908).
*"Sylloge Fungorum" 23: i-xxxii, 1026 pp (1925).
*"Sylloge Fungorum" 24 (1): 1-703 (1926).
*"Sylloge Fungorum" 24 (2): 704-1438 (1928).Notes
References
*Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. "Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana", 75: 159-382.
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