Antonio Berlese, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antonio Berlese

Italian entomologist

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1863

Place of Birth: Padua, Veneto, Italy

Date of Death: 24-Oct-1927

Profession: botanist, entomologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Antonio Berlese (26 June 1863 in Padua – 24 October 1927 in Florence) was an Italian entomologist. Berlese worked on pest insects notably of fruit trees.
He published over 300 articles and a book Gli insetti loro organizzazione, sviluppo, abitudini e rapporti con l’uomo (in two volumes, 1909 and 1925); also a series entitled Acari, Myriapoda et Scorpiones hucusque in Italie reperta which appeared in 101 numbers between 1882 et 1903 and which contained over 1,000 figures by Berlese himself.
He was a specialist in Hemiptera Coccoidea. With his brother, Augusto Napoleone Berlese (1864-1903), a plant and mushroom disease specialist, he founded the Revista di Patologia vegetale in 1892.
In 1903 he founded the review Redia, which he edited until his death.
This publication promoted zoological studies in agriculture, forestry, and in urban contexts, with an emphasis on entomology, acarology and nematology.
The aim was to increase taxonomic knowledge of groups with pest species.