Giovanni Passerini was an Italian

Italy

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 botanist and entomologist , born on June 16, 1816 or 1819 in Pieve di Guastalla

Guastalla

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. He died on April 17 , 1893 in Parma

Parma

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Giovanni Passerini was a professor of botany

Botany

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 at the university of Parma. He is the author of several works on the aphids. His collection, of 5, 500 specimens in 52 genera

Genus

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 kinds and 89 species

Species

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, is in the Natural history museum of the university of Parma.

In 1875, he was the first president of the Italian section of the Alpine Club

Alpine Club

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Works (partial)

• Gli insetti autori delle galle del Terebinto e del Lentisco insieme ad alcune specie congeneri. Giornale Giardini Orticolt. 3: 258-265 (1856).
• Gli afidi con un prospetto dei generi ed alcune specie nuove Italiane. Parma : Tipografia Carmignani 40 pp. (1860).
• Aphididae Italicae hucusque observatae. Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. 2: 129-212 (1863).
• Aphididae Italicae hucusque observatae. Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. 2: 129-212 (1863).