Antonio Berlese

Antonio Berlese (26 June 1863, in Padua, Austrian Empire – 24 October 1927, in Florence) was an Italian entomologist.

He published over 300 articles and a book Gli insetti loro organizzazione, sviluppo, abitudini e rapporti con l’uomo (in two volumes, 1909 and 1925); also a series entitled Acari, Myriapoda et Scorpiones hucusque in Italie reperta which appeared in 101 numbers between 1882 et 1903 and which contained over 1,000 figures by Berlese himself.

With his brother, Augusto Napoleone Berlese (1864–1903), a plant and mushroom disease specialist, he founded the Revista di Patologia vegetale in 1892.

This publication promoted zoological studies in agriculture, forestry, and in urban contexts, with an emphasis on entomology, acarology and nematology.

[2] There are roads named after Berlese in Padua, Milan, Bergamo, Treviso and Monte Migliore-la Selvotta.