Longinos Navás (7 March 1858
Cabacés, Tarragona – 31 December 1938
Girona
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) was a
Spanish
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entomologist
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who specialised in
Plecoptera
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and
Neuropteroidea
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.
Father Longinos Navás was a
Jesuit
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priest. He published extensively on the Neuroptera fauna of Spain in ''Memorias de la Real. Academia Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona''. His papers on worldwide fauna are published in this, other Spanish, German, Italian and American entomological journals. Navás described very many new species. His Neuroptera are in th
Museu de Ciències Naturals, Museum of Natural Sciences Barcelona
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. His
Lepidoptera
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collections are i
Museo Paleontologico de la Universidad de Zaragoza Zaragoza
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.
References
*Musgrave, A. 1932 ''Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775-1930''. Sydney.
External links
Archive.orgScan of ''Neurópteros de España y Portugal'' (1908)
Archive.orgScan of Navás, L. 1912. Insectos neurópteros nuevos o poco conocidos. Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona (3)10:135-202.
Archive.orgScan of Navás, L. 1912. ''Notas sobre Mirmeleónidos (Ins. Neur.)''. Brotéria (Zoológica) 10:29-75, 85-97.
Archive.org Scan of ''Sinopsis de los ascaláfidos : (Ins. Neur.)'' (1913)
Archive.org Scan of ''Crisopids d'Europa (ins. neur.)'' .. (1915)
EphemeropteraPapers including
EphemeropteraNeuroptera of FloridaPapers on American Neuroptera
DEI ZALFFurther references
Spanish entomologists
1858 births
1938 deaths
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