> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 601](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333740) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9655-1) LSID 9655-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2262181) QID Q2262181 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Silvestri, Filippo (1873-1949), Italian entomologist and botanist; educated at the University of Palermo; with the Laboratory of comparative anatomy, Univ. Roma and at the Dept. of Zool., Museum Buenos Aires (1898-1899); director of the Zoological Station, Portici 1904-1948; in retirement 1948-1949. **Abbreviated name**: *F. Silvestri* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.Silvestri*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography BL 2: 410, 716; BM 4: 1926, 8: 1192; LS 39242, suppl. 25590; Saccardo 1: 154; Tucker 3: 281. #### Biofile - Anon., Annuar. pontif. Accad. Sci. 1: 674-706. 1936 (curr. vit., port., bibl.); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 222: 459-460. 1964; Chi è?, Diz. biogr. Ital. oggi 5: 869. 1948 (b. 22 Jun 1873); Encicl. ital. Sci. lett. art. \[..\]: 788. 1936; Science no: 460. 1949 (d. 10 Jun 1949); World biogr. L-Z: 4375-4376. 1948. - Codignola, A., L'Italia e gli Italiani di oggi 664-665. 1947. - Cañizo, J. d., Bol. r. Soc. españ. Hist. nat., Biol. 50: 189-199. 1952 (obit., portr.). - Cotronei, G., Boll. Lab. Zool. gen. agr. Portici 33: xi-xxxix. 1956 (biogr., evaluation, portr.). - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 353. 1977. - Hale Carpenter, G.D., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 162: 110-112. 1950 (obit.). - Jannone, G., Vita di Scienziato (biografia di Filippo Silvestri) Pisa 1950, 199 p. (biogr.). - Masi, L., Mem. Soc. entom. ital. 38: 125-135. 1949 (obit., portr.). - Orfila, R.N., Revist. Soc. entom. Argent. 14: 322-326. 1950 (obit.). - Porter, C.E., Revista chil. Hist. nat. 39: 225-227. 1935 (portr.). - Russo, G., Bull. Lab. entom. agrar. Portici 9: iii-xlix. 1949 (obit., portr., bibl.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 4: 46. 1938. - Wigglesworth, V.B., Proc. R. entom. Soc. London C-14: 64-66. 1950 (obit., b. 22 Jun 1873, d. 2 Jun 1949). ### Publications ##### n.11.984. Contributo allo studio della flora mevanate **Title** *Contributo allo studio della flora mevanate*. Appunti di Silvestri Filippo. Perugia (Tipografia G. Guerra e C.) 1891. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Contr. fl. mevan.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1891 (Bot. Centralbl. 2 Mar 1892; Nat. Nov. Mar(1) 1892), p. \[1\]-40. *Copy*: FI.