Vittore Ghiliani (14 May 1812 – 17 May 1878), 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 ...

. From 1832 until his death he worked as an assistant (

curator A curator (from , meaning 'to take care') is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular ins ...

) in the Zoological Museum of Turin where he was responsible for the

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are parasitic. Females typi ...

and

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 ...

collections of

Maximilian Spinola Maximilian Spinola (; July 10, 1780 – November 12, 1857) was an Italian entomologist. Background Spinola was born in Pézenas, Hérault, France. The family of Spinola was of very long standing and had great wealth and power in Genoa. Max ...

and the Ferdinando Breme collection of Coleoptera and

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advance ...

. Vittore Ghiliani was an "adviser" of the Italian Entomological Society from 1869 to 1871 and Vice-President from 1871 until 1878. He published a series of scientific papers on the Coleoptera of

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, Sicily, Spain and

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and edited by

Lorenzo Camerano Lorenzo Camerano (9 April 1856 Biella – 22 November 1917 Turin) was an Italian herpetologist and entomologist. Born in Biella in 1856 he studied in Bologna and Torino, where he settled in order to take, between 1871 and 1873, a painting course ...

an important list of species of Coleoptera from

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. In Compte rendu des hyménoptères inédits provenants du voyage entokologique de M. Ghiliani dans le Para en 1846. ''Memoire della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino'' (2)13: 19–94 Spinola comments that M. Ghiliani in 1846 embarked to Brazil where he remained for three years, having disembarked in

Belém Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the north of B ...

, collecting insects of all the

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Works

Partial list *Insetti di Sicilia determinati dal Sig. F. Ghiliani nel suo viaggio in questa isola. Anno 1839. ''Atti Acc. Gioenia, Catania'', 19: 19–48 (1842) *Materiali per servire alla compilazione della Fauna entomologica Italiana, ossia elenco delle specie di Lepidotteri riconosciuti esistenti negli Stati Sardi ''Memorie delta R. Acc. delle Sc. di Torino'', xiv (1854) *Elenco delle specie di Coleotteri trovate in Piemonte. ''Annali della Accademia d'Agricoltura di Torino'' 29:195–381 (1886)

References

*Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. ''Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana'', 75 : 159–382. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghiliani, Vittore 1878 deaths 1812 births Italian entomologists People from the Kingdom of Sardinia Italian expatriates in Brazil 19th-century Italian biologists