Leonardo Fea

See also: Fea

Leonardo Fea is a explorer, a zoologist and a Italian Artiste , born the July 24th 1852 with Turin and dead the April 27th 1903 in this same city.

He is assistant with the Muséum of Genoa of 1872 with 1903. He makes several important voyages whose in Burma in 1885 and where he spends four years, in the Golfe of Guinea and in the islands of the Cape Verde in 1898. He brings back zoological rich person collections of them, in particular of Oiseau X and Insecte S. His/her friend Adelaro Tommaso Paleotti Salvadori (1835-1923) dedicates to him the Merle of Fea or Turdus feae in 1887 and the Pétrel gongon or Pterodroma feae in 1899.

Other dedicated species

  • Several hyménoptères by Carlo Emery (1848-1925): Aenictus feae , Aphaenogaster feae , Centromyrmex feae , Dolichoderus feae in 1889, Amblyopone feae and Pheidole feae in 1895; like by Carlo Menozzi (1892-1943) Psalidomyrmex feae in 1922.
  • the snakes Azemiops feae by George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937) in 1888 and Rhinotyphlops feae in 1906.
  • the Anoura by Boulenger Brachytarsophrys feae and Paa feae in 1887, Rhacophorus feae in 1893 and Hymenochirus feae in 1907.
  • the cervidé Muntiacus feae by Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (1858-1929) and Giacomo Doria (1840-1913) in 1889.
  • the Poisson S Osteobrama feae and Pareuchiloglanis feae by Decio Vinciguerra (1856-1934) in 1890.
  • the isopode Pericephalus feae by Gustav Henrik Andreas Budde-Lund (1846-1911) in 1895.

Source

  • Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins (2003). Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Close (New Haven and London).
  • Cesare Conci and Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography off Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical dated. Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana , 75 : 159-382.

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