Vittore Ghiliani was an Italian

Italy

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 entomologist
From 1832 until his death he worked as an Assistant (Curator

Curator

A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

) in the Zoological Museum of Turin

Turin Museum of Natural History

The Turin Museum of Natural History was established in 1978 to house the natural history collections of the University of Turin and other collections of naturali history, originated from specific research campaigns and donations...

 where he was responsible for the Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. There are over 130,000 recognized species, with many more remaining to be described. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν : membrane and...

 and Coleoptera collections of Maximilian Spinola

Maximilian Spinola

-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. Maximilian Spinola was a descendant of the famous Spanish General Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases and much of his wealth derived from land...

 and the Ferdinando Breme

Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme

Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme , Duc de Sartirana Lomellina, marquis de Breme was an Italian naturalist and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Diptera.He was a “sénateur” of the Société entomologique de France and president of that society in...

 collection of Coleoptera and Diptera

Diptera

Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...

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Vittore Ghiliani was an "Adviser" of the Italian Entomological Society

La Società Entomologica Italiana

La Società Entomologica Italiana, the Italian Entomological Society, is Italy’s foremost society devoted to the study of insects. The society is famous for promoting applied entomology and many of its past members have saved millions from deadly diseases such as malaria.The society was founded on...

 from 1869-1871 and Vice-President from 1871 until 1878. He published a series of scientific papers on the Coleoptera of Sardinia

Sardinia

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, Sicily

Sicily

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, Spain

Spain

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 and Brasil and edited by Lorenzo Camerano

Lorenzo Camerano

Lorenzo Camerano 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 held by Fontanesi at the local Art Academy.Camerano worked as a painter for the Turin Zoology Museum,...

 an important list of species of Coleoptera from Piedmont

Piedmont

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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

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, collecting insects of all the orders

Order (biology)

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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)