Tags: Entomologist.
Filippo Silvestri (Bevagna 22 June 1873 – Portici 10 June 1949) was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura Thysanura Diplura and Isoptera but also worked on Hymenoptera Myriapoda and Italian Diptera. He is also noted for describing and naming the previously unknown order Zoraptera.A keen young naturalist Silvestri became assistant to Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854–1925) Director of the Institute of Anatomical Research of the University of Rome.