Filippo Silvestri

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Filippo Silvestri
BornJune 22, 1873
DiedJune 10, 1949 (1949-06-11) (aged 75)
NationalityItalian
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology

Filippo Silvestri (22 June 1873 – 10 June 1949) was an Italian

Diptera. 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.[1]

Silvestri was born in Bevagna. A keen young naturalist, he became assistant to Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854–1925), Director of the Institute of Anatomical Research of the University of Rome. In 1904, Silvestri became Director of the Institute of Entomology and Zoology at the agricultural college in Portici (the Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, now Faculty of Agriculture), a position he held for 45 years. He discovered polyembryony in the 1930s while working on Litomatix truncatellus Hymenoptera. His collection is in the

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova
. Duplicates of Isoptera are in the
Museum für Naturkunde
Berlin.

Filippo Sivestri has been commemorated in the names of the following: a square in his home town, Bevagna; a high school in Portici, the town where he worked and died; and a street in Rome (00134 Borgo Lotti).

A species of South American

Amphisbaena silvestrii is named in his honor.[2]

Publications on termites.

References

  1. ^ "Filippo Silvestri". The Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2014-11-21.
  2. . ("Silvestri", p. 244).