| Cándido Bolívar Pieltain | |
| Birth Date: | 15 April 1897 |
| Birth Place: | Madrid |
| Death Place: | Mexico City |
| Fields: | Entomology |
| Alma Mater: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
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| Father: | Ignacio Bolívar |
Cándido Luis Bolívar Pieltain (15 April 1897 – 22 November 1976) was a Spanish naturalist and entomologist.[1]
He studied in Ciudad Real. When he was 14, his article “Observaciones sobre algunas cuevas del Norte de España y descripción de una nueva especie de ‘Speocharis’” was published in the Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. When he was 17 years old, he went to the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, to study sciences. In 1924, he married Amelia Goyanes and they had six children. He travelled to Italy, Greece, Morocco and the United States..
After the Spanish Civil War, he moved to Mexico, where he died in 1976.