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Achille Costa (1823-1899)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Achille Costa (10 August 1823, Lecce- 17 November 1899 Rome) was an Italian entomologist appointed director of the Zoological Museum of Naples. He founded the entomological collections in Naples and described many new species.

Achille Costa was the son of Oronzio Gabriele Costa

ANT TAXONOMY

 

PUBLICATIONS

Costa, A. 1884. Notizie ed osservazioni sulla geo-fauna Sarda. Memoria terza. Risultamento delle ricerche fatte in Sardegna nella estate del 1883. Atti R. Accad. Sci. Fis. Mat. Napoli (2)1(9 9: 1-64

REFERENCE

Covetti, A. 1970. Bollettino della Societa Sarda di Scienze Naturali 6: 59-71, portrait.

Della Valle, A., Atti Accad. Pontaniana (Napoli), 29:- Necrologia 4, 6 pp., 1899.

Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton's Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.