Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti
Italian entomologist
Born on: February 13, 1823Died on: September 18, 1902
Aged: 79 years 217 days (955 months)
Birth Sign: Aquarius
Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Sternorrhyncha. He was Professor of Botany and Zoology in Florence, associated with Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze where his collection remains today at La Specola.
He was especially interested in pest species, mainly mealybugs, scale insects and other pests that attack citrus and peaches. He described many new insect taxa.
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