Le Chevalier Leonardo De (or de) Prunner (died 1831) was an Italian soldier, a

mineralogist Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical mineralogy, optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifact (archaeology), artifacts. Specific s ...

and an

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

. He wrote ''Catalogus larvarum Europae'' (1793, 39 pages) and ''Lepidoptera Pedemontana illustrata'' (1798, 127 pages).

Sources

*Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. ''Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana'', 75 : 159–382.
Courte bibliographie en italien de Musei universitari

External links

Letter of 15 March 1810 to Thomas Jefferson
Founders Archives. U.S. National Archives {{DEFAULTSORT:Deprunner, Leonardo Italian lepidopterists 18th-century births 1831 deaths