Maximilian Spinola

Maximilian Spinola (Italian: Massimiliano Spinola; July 10, 1780^[1] – November 12, 1857) was an Italian entomologist.

Background

Spinola was born in Pézenas, Hérault, France. The family of Spinola was of very long standing and had great wealth and power in Genoa. Maximilian Spinola was a descendant of the famous Spanish General Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases (1569–1630) and much of his wealth derived from land held in Spain and South America.

Research

He received many insects from his properties in Spain and South America. He also made extensive, and expensive purchases especially of large showy tropical beetles and wasps. His entomological contributions were mainly in the orders Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Hemiptera.

Spinola made very important contributions to entomology, describing many taxa , especially in Spinola M. M., 1850.Tavola sinottica dei generi spettani all classe degli insetti Arthroidignati, Hemiptera Linn., Latr. - Rhyngota Fab. - Rhynchota Burm. Memoria del Socio Attuale signor Marchese Massimiliano Spinola Modena, Dal tipi delle R.D. Camera. Soc. Ital. Sci., T.25, pt.1: 138 pp.

He is listed, as Count Maximilian Spinola, as an ordinary member of the Entomological Society of London in the Society's first volume of transactions published in 1836.At that time he lived in Genoa.

Spinola's Coleoptera (with types purchased from Dejean), Hymenoptera (with types purchased from Audinet-Serville and Lepeletier and specimens from the Pierre André Latreille Collection), Heteroptera and Homoptera collections are in Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali in Turin, Italy. Other specimens are in Museo storia naturale di Pisa. Most of his type specimens are extant and in good condition.

He died in Tassarolo, Alessandria, Italy.

Works

• 1806. Insectorum Liguriæ Species Novæ aut Rariores, quas in agro Ligustico nuper detexit, descripsit, et iconibus illustravit. Tom. 1. xvii+159 pp. Genuæ.
• 1808. Insectorum Liguriae species novae aut rariores, quae in agro Ligustico nuper detexit, descripsit et iconibus illustravit Maximilianus Spinola, adjecto Catalogo spiecierum auctoribus jam enumeratarum, quae in eadam regione occurrunt, Vol. 2. Gravier, Genuae.
• 1839. Compte rendu des hyménoptères recueillis par M. Fischer pendant son voyage en Égypte, et communiqués par M. le Docteur Waltl a Maximilien. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 7: 437-546.
• 1839 Essai sur les Fulgorelles, sous-tribu de la tribu des Cicadaires, ordre des Rhynchotes Ann. Soc. ent. France 8, 133-137, 339-454
• 1843. Sur quelques Hyménoptères peu connus, recueillis en Espagne, pendant l’année 1842, par M. Victor Ghiliani, voyageur-naturaliste. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (2)1: 111-144.
• 1851. Hyménopteros. in Gay, C., Historia Fisica y Politica de Chile. Zoologia. Vol. 6. Casa del autor, Paris. pp. 153–569.
• 1853. Compte rendu des hyménoptères inédits provenants du voyage entomologique de M. Ghiliani dans le Para en 1846. Memoire della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino (2)13: 19-94.[1]

Notes

1. ^ Austin,Andrew and Dowton, Mark, ed. "Australian hymenoptera in the Spinola Collection: a list of species". Hymenoptera: Evolution, Biodiversity and Biological Control. CSIRO Publishing. p. 231. ISBN 0643066101. http://books.google.gr/books?id=p-OLJvwbDu4C&pg=PA231&lpg=PA231&source=web&ots=HurXI34jXQ&sig=w2Hge1YbSVNIbeNg0NfeML8xlFQ&hl=el&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result. 

References

• Austin,Andrew and Dowton, Mark, ed. "Australian hymenoptera in the Spinola Collection: a list of species". Hymenoptera: Evolution, Biodiversity and Biological Control. CSIRO Publishing. p. 231. ISBN 0643066101. http://books.google.gr/books?id=p-OLJvwbDu4C&pg=PA231&lpg=PA231&source=web&ots=HurXI34jXQ&sig=w2Hge1YbSVNIbeNg0NfeML8xlFQ&hl=el&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result. 
• Gestro, R. 1915. Ricordo di Massimiliano Spinola. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 47:33-53.

External links

• Works by or about Maximilian Spinola in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Internet Archive Digital version of Compte rendu des Hyménoptères inédits Provenants du voyage entomologique de M. Ghiliani dans la Para en 1846.Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Volume: 13, Series 2, Pages: 19-94 1853.

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Name	Spinola, Maximilian
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Date of birth	July 10, 1780
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Date of death	November 12, 1857
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