Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates is a taxonomic work by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, published in Vienna in 1763. As well as describing hundreds of new species, Entomologia Carniolica contained observations on the species' biology, including the first published account of queen bees mating outside the hive.
Frontispiece of Entomologia Carniolica
Oedemera nobilis, originally described as Cantharis nobilis
Emmelia trabealis, originally described as Phalaena trabealis
Camponotus vagus, originally described as Formica vaga
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Principia mineralogiae systematicae et practicae, 1772
Flora Carniolica (1760)