Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist and academic (died 1949)

Filippo Silvestri

Italian entomologist (1873–1949)

Filippo Silvestri was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda and Italian Diptera. He is also noted for describing and naming the previously unknown order Zoraptera. In 1938 he was…