Oronzio Gabriele Costa


Oronzo Gabriele Costa was an Italian zoologist.
At first a physician, he taught zoology at the University of Naples. He wrote 126 papers on various subjects, principally entomology, and in 1846 served as president of the Accademia Pontaniana in Naples.
His two sons, Achille Costa and Giuseppe Costa, were also both well known zoologists.

Publications

There has been a good deal of confusion over the publication details of his most important work, the
Fauna del Regno di Napoli, published over a long period of time, including, in collaboration with his son, Achille Costa. Taeger and Blank state that for some of the work, Oronzio was merely the editor, Achille being the actual author, and whose name appears on the title page.