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Società Entomologica Italiana

Società Entomologica Italiana is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Società Entomologica Italiana rather than just read about it. In short: La Società Entomologica Italiana, the Italian Entomological Society, is Italy's foremost society devoted to the study of insects. The society promotes applied entomology.

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Reference excerpt

La Società Entomologica Italiana, the Italian Entomological Society, is Italy's foremost society devoted to the study of insects. The society promotes applied entomology. Its past members have saved millions from deadly diseases such as malaria. The society has two academic publications: Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana (1869-) and Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana (1922-).

History The society was founded on 31 October 1869, near the Regio Museo di Storia Naturale, the Royal Natural History Museum (effectively "Museo zoologico de La Specola") in Florence. The founding members were Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti – the first president of the society – Giovanni Battista Grassi, Antonio Berlese, Filippo Silvestri, and Guido Grandi. The Society had been promoted almost two years before by a group of Italian and other scientists from various institutions across Italy. On 1 January 1868, 21 members of the Comitato dei Promotori della Società Entomologica Italiana committee signed a manifesto coordinated by Alexander Enrico Haliday and four academic associates:

Emilio Cornalia, then director of del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Milano, the author of works of applied entomology, such as "La Monografia del bombice del gelso" published in 1856; Giovanni Passerini, university professor of Botany at the Università di Parma; Paolo Savi, director of the "Museo zoologico dell'Università di Pisa", and author of "Ornitologia Toscana", Tuscany Birds (1827–1831), who had also promoted the first congress of Italian scientists, Primo Congresso degli Scienziati Italiani at Pisa in 1839 an author of notes on breeding Samia cynthia, an alternative silk producer of optimal quality "shantung" Achille Costa, holder of the first chair of Entomology and director of Museo zoologico dell'Università di Napoli. Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti and Pietro Stefanelli are also listed as one of the Comitato. Fernandino Maria Piccioli was an editor. The founding of the society was a part of the Risorgimento. In 1922, it moved to Genoa, to Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, where it is based. La Società Entomologica Italiana collaborates with Unione Zoologica Italiana, the Italian Zoological Society in maintaining a website listing the Italian Fauna FaunaItalia.

Notables Achille Costa - Vice President of the society (1879-1898) Raffaello Gestro - President of the society (1922-23) Giovanni Battista Grassi Alexander Henry Haliday Leonello Picco Camillo Rondani Ruggero Verity

References

External links Italian Entomological Society official website Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana on the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Società Entomologica Italiana

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Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Società Entomologica Italiana before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Società Entomologica Italiana ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Società Entomologica Italiana

In research: Società Entomologica Italiana appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Società Entomologica Italiana in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Società Entomologica Italiana is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Biology societies, Entomological societies, Learned societies of Italy, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Società Entomologica Italiana outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Società Entomologica Italiana in simple terms?

La Società Entomologica Italiana, the Italian Entomological Society, is Italy's foremost society devoted to the study of insects. The society promotes applied entomology.

Why does Società Entomologica Italiana matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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