Stefano Ludovico Straneo

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|name = Stefano Ludovico Straneo

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|birth_date = {{birth date|1902|6|6|df=y}}

|birth_place = Turin, Italy

|death_date = {{death date and age|1997|12|9|1902|6|6|df=y}}

|death_place = Milan, Italy

|nationality = Italian

|fields = Entomology

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|known_for = Taxonomy of Carabidae

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Stefano Ludovico Straneo (also Lodovico) (Turin, 6 June 1902 – Milan, 9 December 1997) was an Italian entomologist, teacher, academic administrator and author.{{cite web|url=http://sdei.senckenberg.de/biographies/information.php?C_Name=12734&Sprache=en |title=Straneo, Stefano Lodovico |publisher=Biographies of the Entomologists of the World |accessdate=1 June 2016}}

Straneo's primary fields of interest were the beetles (Coleoptera), in particular the family of ground beetles (Carabidae, tribe Pterostichinae). He described 64 new genera and almost 1,200 new species.{{cite book|author=Yves Bousquet|title=Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haOUwG9PWcoC&pg=PA764|date=28 November 2012|publisher=PenSoft Publishers LTD|isbn=978-954-642-658-1|pages=764–}} His collection, Coleoptera: Carabidae and Paussidae, is on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.

Straneo's father was a theoretical physicist and an acquaintance of Albert Einstein. He showed an early interest in biology and began collecting insects, eventually focusing on carabid beetles. He published his first paper in 1933 and 238 more until 1995.{{cite book|author1=George E. Ball|author2=Achille Casale|author3=Augusto Vigna Taglianti|title=Phylogeny and classification of Caraboidea (Coleoptera: Adephaga): proceedings of a symposium : 28 August, 1996, Florence, Italy : XX International Congress of Entomology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zdJMAAAAYAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Museo regionale di scienze naturali|isbn=978-88-86041-29-4}} He received the Italian Golden Medal for Distinguished Educator in Culture And Art in 1972.{{cite web|url=http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=7897 |title=Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della scuola della cultura e dell'arte |accessdate=1 June 2016}}