Ricardo García Mercet

For other people named Ricardo Garcia, see Ricardo Garcia (disambiguation).

Ricardo García Mercet (16 August 1860 – 12 May 1933 was a Spanish naturalist and entomologist.

He was a pharmacist attached to the Spanish military. At various times he was a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, President of Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (Spanish society of Natural history); Secretary general of Asociación Española para el Progreso de las Ciencias (Spanish Association for the progress of science) and an Honorary Member of the entomological societies of Egypt and Chile.

His collections of Chalcidoidea are conserved in Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid and the Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria in Genoa.

Works

1921 Fauna ibérica Himenópteros, fam. encírtidos Madrid :Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales [1]

References

• Poggi, R.; Conci, C. 1996: [Mercet Garcia, R.] Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital., Genova 75 :73
• Viejo Montesinos, J. L. 1998: [Mercet Garcia, R.] Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 1 122-134

External links

• Works by or about Ricardo García Mercet at the Internet Archive