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Amedeo John Engel Terzi

Vivid medical and zoological drawings by the prolific illustrator and entomologist A J E Terzi (1872–1956).

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102 images from works
  • A tick (Ixodes reduvius). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The male human flea (Pulex irritans). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • Life-cycle stages of the parasite Babesia canis and its vector, the kennel tick (Rhicephalus sanguineus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The larva and fly of the sheep-nostril-fly (Oestrus ovis). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The larva and fly of a house fly (Musca domestica). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A ventral aspect of the female fowl argas (Argas persicus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • The larva of a flesh fly (Sarcophaga species). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1919.
  • A tick (Argas persicus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • The pupa of a tsetse fly (Glossina palpalis). Coloured pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A horse botfly (Gasterophilus intestinalis). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.

Images featuring Amedeo John Engel Terzi

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  • Three researchers outside the British experimental hut set up near Ostia to verify the mosquito-malaria theory. Coloured photograph of a pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca. 1900.

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121 works

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    The larva of the ox warble fly (Hypoderma bovis). Drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1919.

    Amedeo John Engel Terzi | Date: 1919 | Reference: 41599i
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    A tick (Ornithodurus moubata). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

    Amedeo John Engel Terzi | Reference: 41465i
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    Life-cycle stages of the parasite Babesia canis and its vector, the kennel tick (Rhicephalus sanguineus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

    Amedeo John Engel Terzi | Reference: 41495i
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    The sheep nostril fly (Oestrus ovis). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.

    Amedeo John Engel Terzi | Date: 1919 | Reference: 41602i
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    A woman suffering from chronic pellagra with dermatitis on her hands, neck and face. Watercolour by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1925.

    Amedeo John Engel Terzi | Reference: 41706i
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Related topics

Diptera
Larva
Culicidae
Ticks
Insects - Anatomy
Insects as carriers of disease
Wings, Animal
Pupa
Tropical Medicine
Pellagra

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