Carlo Bassi

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Carlo Bassi (1807, Amsterdam - 1856, Milano) was an Italian entomologist.He was honorary curator of entomology in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milan from 1841 to his death in 1856.He was a specialist in Coleoptera.Bassi wrote Description du genre Malacogaster in Gu rin-M neville's Magasin de Zoologie, d'Anatomie com- par e et de Paleontologie 1833 and in the 1834 issue of Annales de la Soci t entomologique de France) he erected the carabid genus Cardiomera.His collection and extensive library of works on Coleoptera is conserved in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milan.