Anastase Alfieri (23 March 1892
Alexandria
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– 1971
Cairo
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) was an Italian
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 ...
who worked principally on
Coleoptera
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
but, also, with
Hermann Preisner, on
Heteroptera
The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. They are sometimes called "true bugs", though that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole. "Typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal al ...
. Most of his work was on the fauna of
Egypt
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. His collection is shared between the natural history museum in Tutzing
:de:Tutzing and the
National Museum of Natural History
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in Washington D.C. (Smithsonian).
His principal works are
*The Coleoptera of Egypt. ''Mem. Soc. Entomol. Egypt''. 5:38.(1976)
*with Hermann Preisner A review of the Hemiptera Heteroptera known to us from Egypt. ''Bulletin de la Société Fouad Ier d’Entomologie'' 37:1-119.(1953).
Italian entomologists
Italian expatriates in Egypt
1892 births
1971 deaths
20th-century Italian zoologists
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