Le Chevalier Leonardo De (or de) Prunner (died 1831) was an Italian soldier, a
mineralogist and an
entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
. 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 JeffersonFounders Archives.
U.S. National Archives
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Italian lepidopterists
18th-century births
1831 deaths