Nicolò Bertucci Contarini

Count Nicolò Bertolucci Contarini (26 September 1780 – 16 April 1849) was an Italian nobleman and amateur naturalist.

Contarini was born in Venice in a noble family, the son of Senator Bertucci Paolo.

From 1830 he began to write about insects in agriculture and in 1840 he was inducted into the Venetian institute of sciences, letters and arts.

[1] He described several species of Cecidomyiid flies including one that he found on the wings of birds.

He also took an interest in marine biology, describing new species of Actinia and sea anemones in 1841.