Biography
Count Of Caporiacco his family pedigree traces back to Thirteenth century noblemen of the Friuli region, Italy. He Obtained his degree in Natural Sciences in 1920, taught Zoology and Comparative Anatomy since 1929. In 1943 Became Professor of Zoology at the Faculty of Science at the University of Parma. He participated in the Captain Orestes Marchesi Expedition to the Gebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary between Sudan, Lybia, and Egypt. There, together with the Hungarian explorer Count Almasy, he discovered the Ain Doua paintings in 1933.
Publication activity
New taxa described
Described Taxa Distribution
5 type localities across 5 genera
Papers (5)
Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae. Acta biol. venez. 1: 265-448.
Araignées de la Guyane Française du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Commentat. pontif. Acad. Scient. 16: 45-193.
Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747.
Diagnosi preliminari de specie nuove di aracnidi della Guiana Brittanica raccolte dai professori Beccari e Romiti. Monitore Zoologico Italiano 56: 20-34.
Aracnidi raccolte nella Reg. dei Laghi Etiopici della Fossa Galla. Atti Real. Accad. Ital. 11: 767-873.