Pietro Stefanelli was an Italian

Italy

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 Professor of Entomology

Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...

. mainly interested in Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

 and Odonata

Odonata

Odonata is an order of insects, encompassing dragonflies and damselflies . The word dragonfly is also sometimes used to refer to all Odonata, but the back-formation odonate is a more correct English name for the group as a whole...

.He was a founding member of the Italian Entomological Society

La Società Entomologica Italiana

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. He was also instrumental in the early development of Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria

Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria

The Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria , located in Florence, Italy, is the oldest phytopathology centre in the world....

 being especially concerned with pest species of Lepidoptera.His collection of foreign and Italian Lepidoptera is in the Zoological Museum La Specola

La Specola

Museum of Zoology and Natural History, best known as La Specola, is a museum in Florence, central Italy, located next to the Pitti Palace. The name "Specola" means observatory, a reference to the astronomical observatory founded there in 1790...

 and in the Istituto Istituto Sperimentale per la Zooogia Agraria.

Sources

• Conci, C. & Poggi, R. 1996: Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital. 75 159-382.418 figures.Portrait.
• Poggi, R. & Conci, C. 1996: Stefanelli, P.] Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital. 75:107