Gustavo Leonardi
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Gustavo Leonardi (27 February 1869, Civezzano, Trentin – 25 August 1918, Vintimille) was an Italian entomologist.
Leonardi was an entomology assistant in the universities of Padua and Portici before becoming a plant disease inspector at Vintimille. He wrote 45 publications on pest insects, such as Monografia delle Cocciniglie italiane (1920). With Agostino Lunardoni (1857-1933), he wrote a four volume treatise on pest insects in Italy (1889 -1901).
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- Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75 : 159-382. (ISSN 0373-8747)