Fernandino Maria Piccioli

Who was Fernandino Maria Piccioli?

Ferdinando Maria Piccioli was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in Hymenoptera and Coleoptera.

Born at San Felice, Piccioli was an “Assistant” at the Stazione di Entomologia Agraria in Florence. He was a member of the founding committee of La Società Entomologica Italiana.

Part of his collections of Tuscany Coleoptera are in the Genoa Natural History Museum. The remainder of the Coleoptera and his Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and other Orders are in La Specola museum.

He died at Sesto Fiorentino in 1900.