Stefano Ludovico Straneo Explained
| Stefano Ludovico Straneo |
| Birth Date: | 6 June 1902 |
| Birth Place: | Turin, Italy |
| Death Place: | Milan, Italy |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Fields: | Entomology |
Stefano Ludovico Straneo (also Lodovico) (Turin, 6 June 1902 – Milan, 9 December 1997) was an Italian entomologist, teacher, academic administrator and author.[1]
Straneo's primary fields of interest were the beetles (Coleoptera), in particular the family of ground beetles (Carabidae, tribe Pterostichinae). He described 64 new genera and almost 1,200 new species.[2] His collection, Coleoptera: Carabidae and Paussidae, is on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.
Straneo's father was a theoretical physicist and an acquaintance of Albert Einstein. He showed an early interest in biology and began collecting insects, eventually focusing on carabid beetles. He published his first paper in 1933 and 238 more until 1995.[3] He received the Italian Golden Medal for Distinguished Educator in Culture And Art in 1972.[4]
Works
- 1984 - Two new species or Pterostichini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the collections of the Museum of Natural History of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
- 1984 - Un nuovo genere del Camerun della tribù Pterostichini (Coleoptera Carabidae).
- 1983 - Nuovi pterostichini asiatici (Coleoptera, Carabidae).
- 1984 - Un nuovo Pterostichus dell'Anatolia occidentale (Col., Carabidae).
- 1984 - Sul genere Amolopsa Beach (Coleoptera Carabidae).
Notes and References
- Web site: Straneo, Stefano Lodovico . Biographies of the Entomologists of the World . 1 June 2016.
- Book: Yves Bousquet. Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico. 28 November 2012. PenSoft Publishers LTD. 978-954-642-658-1. 764–.
- Book: George E. Ball. Achille Casale. Augusto Vigna Taglianti. Phylogeny and classification of Caraboidea (Coleoptera: Adephaga): proceedings of a symposium : 28 August, 1996, Florence, Italy : XX International Congress of Entomology. 1998. Museo regionale di scienze naturali. 978-88-86041-29-4.
- Web site: Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della scuola della cultura e dell'arte . 1 June 2016.
