Costa, Achille (1823-1899)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Achille Costa (10 August 1823, Lecce- 17 November 1899 Rome) was an Italian entomologist appointed director of the Zoological Museum of Naples (1860-1898). He founded the entomological collections in Naples and described many new species.
Achille Costa was the son of Oronzio Gabriele Costa
Types and Collections: MZUN.
PUBLICATIONS
- Costa, A. 1884. Notizie ed osservazioni sulla geo-fauna Sarda. Memoria terza. Risultamento delle ricerche fatte in Sardegna nella estate del 1883. Atti R. Accad. Sci. Fis. Mat. Napoli (2)1(9 9: 1-64
REFERENCE
- Covetti, A. 1970. Bollettino della Societa Sarda di Scienze Naturali 6: 59-71, portrait.
- Della Valle, A., Atti Accad. Pontaniana (Napoli), 29:- Necrologia 4, 6 pp., 1899.
- Howard, L. O. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 84: 250 (1930) Portrait.
- Salfi, M., Ann. 1st. Mus. Zool. Univ. Napoli 15(5): 12-17, 19 (1963) Portrait.