Antonio Giordani Soika
Antonio Giordani Soika (9 May 1913 – 2 January 1997) was an Italian entomologist, ecologist and director of the Civic Museum of Natural History of Venice (''Museo Civico di Storia Naturale''). He had a long career in which he worked on various groups of insects but much of his work was on the Hymenoptera. He made great contributions to the knowledge of Neotropical wasps, especially potter wasps for which he produced many taxonomic keys and also monographs on the systematics of the wasp family Vespidae The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as '' Polistes fuscatus'', '' Vespa orientalis'', and ''Vespula germanica'') and many solitary wasps. Eac .... Publications Below is a partial list of the extensive published work of Antonio Giordani Soika: *1941 Studi sui Vespidi solitari VI. ''Studio di alcuni tipi di vespidi solitary Boll. Mus .Civ. Stor. nat. Venezia'' 2 *1942 Monogr ...
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