The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria is a natural history museum in Genoa, northern Italy. It is named after the naturalist Giacomo Doria, who was the founder and the curator for over forty years.
The museum was founded in 1867 and contains over four million specimens from all over the world. It contains zoological, botanical and geological collections. Important collections include those of Luigi D'Albertis, Leonardo Fea, Arturo Issel, Orazio Antinori, Odoardo Beccari and Lamberto Loria. Since 1922, it is the headquarters of the Società entomologica italiana (lit.'Italian Entomological Society').
History
The museum originated from an idea and the support, especially financial, of the founder.
Marquis Giacomo Doria was an Italian naturalist, botanist, herpetologist, and politician.
Mario Bezzi was an Italian professor of zoology at the University of Turin. He was also director of the Turin Museum of Natural History. He was a Doctor of Science.
Gelotia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.
Giorgio Jan was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan. He was the first director of the natural history museum at Milan.
The Sumatran mastiff bat is a species of bat in the family Molossidae, the free-tailed bats. It is only known from Sumatra in Indonesia. It was described in 1907 and has not been recorded since.
The Wahai tree frog is a species of frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae, endemic to Indonesia and known from the Vogelkop Peninsula in the north-western New Guinea, and from the Seram Island, one of the Maluku Islands. Little is known about this lowland species that has not been collected after it was described in 1878.
The Fly River roundleaf bat is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste is a natural history museum in Trieste, northern Italy. It contains several collections, including more than two millions botanical, zoological, mineralogical, geological, and paleontological specimens.
RaffaelloGestro was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. Gestro was the Director of the Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria Genoa where his collection is conserved. He was a Member and President of the Italian Entomological Society.
Cyligramma griseata is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Africa, including Nigeria and Uganda.
The fauna of Italy comprises all the animal species inhabiting the territory of the Italian Republic and its surrounding waters. Italy has probably the highest level of faunal biodiversity in Europe, with over 57,000 species recorded, representing more than a third of all European fauna. This is due to various factors. The Italian peninsula is in the centre of the Mediterranean Sea, forming a corridor between central Europe and North Africa, and it has 8,000 km (5,000 mi) of coastline. Italy also receives species from the Balkans, Eurasia, and the Middle East. Italy's varied geological structure, including the Alps and the Apennines, Central Italian woodlands, and Southern Italian Garigue and Maquis shrubland, also contribute to high climate and habitat diversity.
Emilio Berio was an Italian entomologist and lawyer.
Duvalius doriae, the Doria's cave beetle, is a species of beetle belonging to the family Carabidae.
Iphimoides is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in southeastern Asia and southern China.
Costalimaita is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. The genus is distributed in South America. It was established by the Czech entomologist Jan Bechyné in 1954, and is dedicated to the Brazilian entomologist Ângelo Moreira da Costa Lima.
Olorus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is found in Asia.
Taranis circumflexa is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Teretia nana is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Luciano Storace was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera He wrote many scientific publications notably on the taxonomy of the butterflies of Africa. His collection is in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova where he was employed. Luciano Storace was a Member of Società Entomologica Italiana.
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