Professor Eugenio Truqui served his country for eighteen years as a Consul, especially in Cyprus, Syria and in Mexico, before being transferred in 1857 to Brazil.
[1] He arrived in Rio de Janeiro on March 1, 1857, with the title of Regent of the General Consulate of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
In 1860 he contracted Yellow fever that with Cholera was claiming victims in the European colonies and decimated the population of Brazil.
After his death, this collection was examined by the eminent coleopterist Flaminio Baudi di Selve, with the descriptions of several new species.
[3] With Flaminio Baudi di Selve he had previously edited Studi Entomologici, Stamperia degli Artisti Tipografi, Torino, Italy.