Filippo Silvestri
Italian entomologist (1873-1949) · Italy · On the map · Scientists · Died at 75
Filippo Silvestri was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda, Italian Diptera and South American ground pearls, scale insects from the family Margarodidae.
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He is also noted for describing and naming the previously unknown order Zoraptera. In 1938 he was nominated to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the scientific academy of the Vatican.
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Italy
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Scientists
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Scientist
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Deceased
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Lived 1873 to 1949 · aged 75
