Milan
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zoologist
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palaeontologist
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Pini was born into an aristocratic family. He was an accountant. In 1872 he became a member of the Società Entomologica Italiana. In 1873 he was appointed member of the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali di Milano. In this Society he was Secretary since 1878. He was also a member of the Società Malacologica Italiana (1875-1895).
The terrestrial molluscs were always his main interest. He specially studied the slugs of Lombardy. He wrote 17 works of malacology, in addition to a report on the ''
Phylloxera
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Cychrus cylindricollis
''Cychrus cylindricollis'' is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily of Carabinae. It was described by Pini in 1871.
Description
''Cychrus cylindricollis'' can reach a length of about . The body show a brilliant black with irregular small s ...
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Acme elegantissima
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Limax doriae
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Etymology
Jules René Bourguignat (1829 - 1892) named this species in ho ...
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Pini's mollusc collections were destroyed when Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano was damaged in 1943 by Allied bombings. His Coleoptera collections are held by Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, while a collection of 100 series of molluscs from southern Italy is held by
* Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data.Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75 : 159-382.
* Eugenio Bettoni, Prodromi della faunistica Bresciana, Appollonio, 1884.
* Cianfanelli and Manganelli - "A bibliography of Marianna Paulucci"
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