Carlo Emery was professor of Zoology at the University of Bologna.He later worked in Geneva. Emery specialised in Hymenoptera and but his early work was on Coleoptera.

Emery published extensively between 1869 and 1926 describing 130 genera and 1057 species mainly in Wytsman's Genera Insectorum series.

Emery’s collections of Hymenoptera are in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. His Coleoptera are in Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma.

See also

• Emery's Rule

References

• Anonym 1925: [Emery, C.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 61:209
• Conci, C. 1975: Repertorio delle biografie e bibliografie degli scrittori e cultori italiani di entomologia. Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital. 48 1969(4) 904–905

External links

• List of Biographies/Portrait
• Brief account and portrait