Dino Scaravelli

• PhD
• University of Bologna

XIII Congresso Italiano di Teriologia, Dipartimento Bioscienze e Territorio dell'Università del Molise - Pesche, Isernia 3-5 Luglio 2024 BOOK od ABSTRACT

This note details new records for Libyan Striped Weasel Ictonyx libycus and Common Genet Genetta genetta in the Algerian Sahara. A Libyan Striped Weasel was captured about 30 km from In Guezzam (19°34’N, 5°46’E), in Tamanrasset province, and was identified at the Ahaggar Cultural Park before being released. A Common Genet was camera­trapped in a na...

Ectoparasite fauna of Falco vespertinus breeding colonies was investigated in a system of artificial nests in the Po valley (Parma province), Italy, during four subsequent breeding seasons (2019 – 2022). Conservation actions regarding Falco vespertinus led to a great increase in its presence in the area. This rise was believed to coincide with an i...

Viene affrontato il problema delle specie esotiche nelle Riseve Biogenetiche Casentinesi alcune delle quali a carattere invasivo.

Background Oriental hornets are large predatory hymenoptera that occur in the southern part of Asia and the southeastern Mediterranean. Among many pests of bee colonies, Vespa orientalis was recorded to be one of the most destructive. Objectives The aim of this study was to: (1) monitor the presence of pathogens carried by V. orientalis that could...

From February to June 2021 extensive monitoring was carried out in an area of 223 km2 in the farmlands of the Ferrara province to assess the distribution and density of four species of raptors, both diurnal (lesser kestrel Falco naumanni, common kestrel Falco tinnunculus) and nocturnal (little owl Athene noctua, barn owl Tyto alba). Species densiti...

Ectoparasite fauna of Falco vespertinus breeding colonies was investigated in a system of artificial nests in agricultural sites in the province of Parma, Italy, during four subsequent breeding seasons (2019–2022). Conservation actions regarding Falco vespertinus led to a great increase in its presence in the area (100 breeding couples currently es...

Lloviu cuevavirus (LLOV) was the first identified member of Filoviridae family outside the Ebola and Marburgvirus genera. A massive die-off of Schreibers’s bats (Miniopterus schreibersii) in the Iberian Peninsula in 2002 led to its initial discovery. Recent studies with recombinant and wild-type LLOV isolates confirmed the zoonotic nature of the vi...

We investigated the transmission dynamics of lyssavirus in Myotis myotis and Myotis blythii, using serological, virological, demographic and ecological data collected between 2015 and 2022 from two maternity colonies in northern Italian churches. Despite no lyssavirus detection in 556 bats sampled over 11 events by reverse transcription-polymerase...

Human-induced environmental alterations in the Alps may importantly affect small mammal species, but evidence in this sense is limited. We live-trapped small rodents in the Central-Eastern Italian Alps in three close-by habitat types (rocky scree, alpine grassland, and heath) at 2100 m a.s.l. during summer-fall, in 1997 and 2016. We compared small...

The ability of an animal to detect environmental cues is crucial for its survival and fitness. In bats, sound certainly plays a significant role in the search for food, spatial navigation, and social communication. Yet, the efficiency of bat’s echolocation could be limited by atmospheric attenuation and background clutter. In this context, sound ca...

Domestic and wild felids are considered suitable hosts for the parasitic mite Sarcoptes scabiei, and sarcoptic mange is reported in several felid species in the scientific literature. However, the historic classification of Sarcoptes mites into host-specific varieties does not include S. scabiei var. felis. It is unclear whether sarcoptic mange tra...

Despite their paramount importance in molecular ecology and conservation, genetic diversity and structure remain challenging to quantify with traditional genotyping methods. Next-generation sequencing holds great promises, but this has not been properly tested in highly mobile species. In this article, we compared microsatellite and RAD-sequencing...

Lloviu cuevavirus (LLOV) was the first identified member of Filoviridae family outside the Ebola and Marburgvirus genera. A massive die-off of Schreibers’ bent-winged bats ( Miniopterus schreibersii ) in the Iberian Peninsula in 2002 led to its discovery. Studies with recombinant and wild-type LLOV isolates confirmed the susceptibility of human-der...

The use of Artificial Cover Objects (ACOs) for herpetological monitoring activities is widely documented in bibliography. We placed 100 ACOs in five areas of Trentino, in different environments and at different altitudes; results point out a differential use of ACOs by reptiles in relation to environmental and altitudinal factors.

Small mammals are among the most important prey of vipers and represent in terms of biomass, diversity and nutritional value a fundamental element for the structure of predatory relationships in alpine pastures. The scarce presence of vipers recorded in the study area appears strongly conditioned by grazing and by a considerable pressure of trampli...

The Marmot Marmota marmota is one of charismatic animal in the Alpine environments and for this reason it was also introduced in the northern Apennines, at the top of Modena area. The species has slowly expanded and today also occupies the area of Corno alle Scale, the highest peak in the Bolognese Apennines. The current study is aimed to investiga...

Purpose While Europe is mostly free from terrestrial rabies, five bat lyssaviruses may cause the same clinical disease in mammals. In June 2020, we diagnosed the infection with West Caucasian Bat Lyssavirus (WCBV) in a domestic cat from Arezzo city (Italy). Methods & Materials We diagnosed the case according to OIE standards, using fluorescence an...

Introduction: Emergence of tick-borne diseases is related to host-pathogen-parasite system alterations, which are affected by several factors. In this sense, underlining the mechanisms between environmental heterogeneity, hosts availability and tick burden are of particular interest to understand the circulation of tick-borne pathogens. Materials...

In June 2020, a cat from Arezzo (Italy) that died from a neurological disease was diagnosed with West Caucasian Bat Lyssavirus (WCBV). The virus retained high identity across the whole-genome with the reference isolate found in 2002 from a Russian bent-winged bat. We applied control measures recommended by national regulations, investigated a possi...

Ascocotyle (Phagicola) trentinii n. sp. is described based on adults from experimentally infected ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus) fed with metacercariae from the visceral serosa of the Mediterranean banded killifish, Aphanius fasciatus (Cyprinodontiformes: Aphaniidae), from coastal lagoons in northeastern Italy (Emilia-Romagna Region). Th...

Surveying Reptiles using Artificial Cover Objects in Trentino. The use of Artificial Cover Objects (ACOs) for herpetological monitoring activities is widely documented in bibliography. We placed 100 ACOs in five areas of Trentino, in different environments and at different altitudes; results point out a differential use of ACOs by reptiles in relat...

Morphological, functional and behavioural adaptations of bats are among the most diverse within mammals. A strong association between bat skull morphology and feeding behaviour has been suggested previously. However, morphological variation related to other drivers of adaptation, in particular echolocation, remains understudied. We assessed variati...

Actually all the populations present severe conservation problems. A general lack of knowledge regarding their actual presence, distribution and status effectively prevents the organization of an adequate action plan. Furthermore, the conservation of inland water sites is eminently based on the presence of rare birds, but this is a case where the u...

La ricerca faunistica svolta nel 2005 nella grotta Stampu V de su Monti e Su Casteddu, situata nel Monte Cudias, nel comune di Villaputzu (Sardegna sud-orientale), a circa cinquant'anni dall'ultimo contributo biospeleologico, ha riportato 5 taxa. A fronte del piccolo numero di specie presenti si riportano considerazioni sulla presenza del prezioso...

Abstract. The results of the faunistic research carried out in 2005 in the Grutta di Nicolau or Grutta de Traddia, located in Monte Cudias, in the municipality of Villaputzu (south-eastern Sardinia) are reported. More than thirty years after the last biospeleological contribution relating to this cavity 5 new taxa have been reported. In the face of...

Abstract.The results relating to about 20 years of research on the hypogeal fauna of the Angurtidorgiu Mannu cave, part of the Is Angurtidorgius Karst System in the municipality of Perdasdefogu (Province of Nuoro) are reported. Eleven species of insects belonging to the orders Coleoptera, Diptera and Othoptera, plus an Arachnida Agelenidae and a Di...

ABSTRACT A new contribution on cave fauna in Sardinia by the authors that explore the biodiversity in San Giovanni cave, in the municipality of Domusnovas. In the hypogeous complex 10 arthropod species were found, with the coleopteran Laemostenus (Actenipus) carinatus endemic of the Sardinian-Corsican region, as well as some considerations on the a...

ABSTRACT A new contribution on cave fauna in Sardinia by the authors that explore the biodiversity in San Giovanni cave, in the municipality of Domusnovas. In the hypogeous complex 10 arthropod species were found, with the coleopteran Laemostenus (Actenipus) carinatus endemic of the Sardinian-Corsican region, as well as some considerations on the...

In the paper we report data on Phthiraptera collected from goats in breeding of central -estern Sardinia (Ogliastra Province). A total of 154 specimens of Phthiraptera belonging to the species Linognathus africanus (102 specimens), L. stenopsis (23) and Bovicola caprae (29) were determined between 2005 and 2012 in 26 goats from 13 different farms f...

The distribution of Dorcus musimon Gené, 1836 for Sardinia is updated, as well as increasing knowledge on the different aroboree species on which it was found. In literature it is reported present almost exclusively in Quercus suber or in general to the Quercus genus. The additional species on which it was found are indeed Alnus glutinosa, Quercus...

Abstract. Over 8 years researches were done to explore the spelefauna present in the cave Crovassa de Pranu Pirastu, located in the Domusnovas territory, in the South Sardinia Province. Among invertebrates were found 11 taxa in Coleoptera, Diptera and Orthoptera orders beside the presence of the amphibian Speleomantes genei and 9 species of Chiropt...

is a cave-dwelling bat species with a wide distribution in the western Palearctic spanning southern and central Europe, North Africa, Anatolia, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. We investigated the social structure and its effects on the genetic makeup of this species, using 10 nuclear microsatellite markers and a partial fragment of the mitochond...

Photogrammetry (PH) is relatively cheap, easy to use, flexible and portable but its power and limitations have not been fully explored for studies of small animals. Here we assessed the accuracy of PH for the reconstruction of 3D digital models of bat skulls by evaluating its potential for evolutionary morphology studies at interspecific (19 specie...

RIASSUNTO Sono riportati i risultati della ricerca faunistica svolta dal 2011 al 2013 nella grotta di Giuanniccu Mene, situata nel Monte Cudias, nel comune di Villaputzu (Sardegna sud-orientale). A circa trent'anni dall'ultimo contributo biospeleologico relativo a questa cavità, vengono riportati 17 taxa, derivanti sia da nuovi rilievi che dallo st...

RIASSUNTO Nel contributo vengono forniti nuovi dati sulla entomofauna presente in una cavità della Sardegna sud-orientale, la Grotta'e Scusi, ubicata nel comune di Villasalto nell'area del Gerrei (Provincia del Sud Sardegna). Vengono riportati cinque taxa di cui tre endemici di Sardegna e uno endemico Sardo-Corso. ABSTRACT Enthomological researches...

L’Arvicola delle nevi Chionomys nivalis (Martins, 1842) è una specie comune degli ambienti montani dove si concentra nelle zone con prevalenza di suoli rocciosi. Le pietraie forniscono agli animali un habitat adatto a soddisfare le esigenze di rifugio e alimentazione e sono probabilmente caratterizzate da condizioni microclimatiche stabili, che fav...

Riassunto. Il monitoraggio dei micromammiferi, ottimi bioindicatori delle biocenosi terrestri, può essere rilevante per valutare l'effetto del clima sugli ecosistemi, specialmente in aree, come le Alpi, sensibili al cambiamento climatico. In tale contesto, nell'estate/autunno del 2016, è stato svolto uno studio pilota nelle Alpi Centrali, basato s...

Helminths found in hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in three areas of Italy All the hedgehogs examined were positive for helminths. Ten species of parasite were found: five nematodes, Capillaria erinacei, Crenosoma striatum, Haemonchus contortus, Physaloptera clausa and Spirura ritypleurites; three trematodes, Brachylaemus erinacei, Brachylecithum a...

Description of the soundscape of the Integral Nature Reserve

Researches were conducted on the fauna present in the cave "Sa Cava Romana", n.601 of Sardinia cadaster, in the Sulcis area (South Western Sardinia), close to Nuxis. 18 taxa were found: 1 Acarina, 1 Pseudoscorpionida, 1 Diptera, 1 Hemiptera, 1 Orthoptera, 10 Coleoptera of 8 families. Correlation with structure of the cave and presence of birds and...

The aim of this study was to determine the locomotor activity pattern of European mouflon and axis deer in a Mediterranean habitat on the island of Rab, and to determine the temporal overlap between these two species. Nine cameras with an infrared motion detection system were used to track animal activity over a 12-month period, 24 hours per day. A...

Background: Influenza season 2007/2008 was marked by a worldwide emergence of oseltamivir-resistant A(H1N1) viruses possessing a mutation in the neuraminidase gene causing His-to-Tyr substitution at amino acid position 275 (H275Y). These strains were isolated in Algeria where 30% of seasonal A(H1N1) viruses harbored the H275Y mutation. Emergence o...

The occurrence of Wildcat Felis silvestris silvestris in the Pratomagno massif (Eastern Tuscany). We report two observations of Wildcat gathered by video trapping in July and August 2015, in the Pratomagno massif. No historical data exist on the presence of wildcat in this area; the first record was sampled in 2009 in the Vallombrosa Reserve,...

El enfoque bioacustico ya hace tiempo resulta un método confiable para explorar la complejidad de la biodiversidad. Esto es especialmente cier to en los quirópteros donde los sonidos son una parte fundamental de su mundo de interacciones intra e interespecíficas, así como para la caza y la orientación. Además, la diferenciación entre los sonidos es...

Tanto la fuerza de mordida como la dieta juegan papeles importantes en la variación morfológica del cráneo de los murciélagos y en la diversificación interespecifica. Sin embargo, la influencia de la ecolocación sobre la ecomorfología no está muy claro. Aquí se investigaron las relaciones funcionales entre el tamaño y la forma del cráneo con la fue...

Introduction – The study of organisms’ phenology is central to understand species and ecosystem health status. Nowadays, one of the major factors that affects animal and plant organisms is the climate change that involves alterations on species’ phenology. Indeed, through the climatic parameters variations (e.g. temperature, precipitation, photoper...

Introduction –Small mammals play a relevant role in the Alpine terrestrial biocenosis. Due to their short life cycle and high growing rate, they can therefore track the rapid habitat shifts resulting from anthropic impacts or fast occurring global climate change, and eventually they are considered good environmental bioindicators. The presence of s...

I micromammiferi hanno un ruolo rilevante nelle biocenosi terrestri e sono ottimi bioindicatori. La loro presenza in un territorio può fornire utili indicazioni sulle modificazioni ambientali e climatiche. Di conseguenza il monitoraggio dei micromammiferi sulle Alpi, un ambiente sensibile al cambiamento climatico per il ripido gradiente altitudinal...

em>Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae) it is a facultative ectoparasite responsible for traumatic myiasis in humans and warmblooded vertebrates in the world. In this work one case of traumatic myasis caused by C. vicina (Diptera Calliphoirdae) is reported for the first time in a vulnerable crested porcupine ( Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758)...

Bite force and dietary preference seem to play an important role on bat skull morphological variation and species diversification, however the contribution of echolocation to bats ecomorphology remains unclear. In this preliminary study we investigated the functional relationships between skull size and shape and both bite force and echolocation pa...

The mammalian skull is a complex three dimensional structure. Skull morphology of bats appears to be strongly correlated with feeding and behavioural ecology, but many questions about its micro and macroevolution remain unanswered. Linear measurements were traditionally employed to quantify skull morphology. However, recent advancements in digital...

Small mammals are excellent bioindicators to track habitat shifts affected by fast-occurring climate change. Thus, small mammals monitoring in the Alps, that for the steep elevation gradient are particularly sensitive to climate change, can provide important indications on alpine environment alterations. We performed a capture/mark/recapture pilot...

The paper summarize localities and ecological note of Cucujoidea Silvanidae Uleiota planata (Linnaeus, 1761) in Sardinia. 10 localities belonging to 5 different provinces were described as well as 7 trees species as habitats. Nuovi dati geonemici per la Sardegna su Uleiota planata (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea, Silvanidae) Vengono rese note le località...

New distributional data summary is here presented for Hydrophilus piceus Linnaeus, 1758 and Hydrophilus pistaceus (Castelnau, 1840) in Sardinia. The first was found in few locality widespread in the island meanwhile the secondi is largely present. A strong decline of number of adult in know locality that is attributed mainly to the increasing prese...

Habitat Suitability Models (HSMs) are central tools in physical and environmental planning because they are able to predict potential distribution of species. In this study two spatial methods were compared to define the HSM for Marmota marmota L. in the Adamello Brenta Nature Park in the Italian central southern part of the Alps. The first model w...

The nesting activity of the sea turtle Caretta caretta in Sicily (southern Italy) has long been declining but in the latest years a substantial resumption of nesting occurred there, related to several factors. Recently, nests were found more frequently, leading to reconsider the importance of this reproductive area for the species in Italy. We anal...

Gli ambienti naturali che ci circondano vengono generalmente apprezzati e giudicati per il paesaggio che percepiamo visivamente. Ma vi è un'altra componente dell'am-biente naturale che spesso trascuriamo, il paesaggio sonoro (Schafer, 1985; Krause, 2002; Pavan, 2012). Si tratta dell'insieme di suoni e rumori che nascono dall'am-biente fisico, dalla...

Ungulate alien species are present in all Europe. One of the factors behind the prevailing trend towards the loss of biological and landscape diversity is the introduction of alien species into ecological systems. As well as for Italy not only there were in the past movement of species. In Croatia were introduced several species of plant and animal...

The presence of a population of the Javelin sand boa Eryx jaculus in Sicilia is here reported for the first time. Observations of live snakes and road-killed individuals have been obtained from the region of Licata (Province of Agrigento), in the southern part of Sicily. Data on the distribution and pholidosis from four specimens are presented. The...

For this study the authors examined data of skull measurements coming from 34 bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) found beached (equally divided) along the section of coast in between Chioggia (Venice) and Fano (Pesaro) for the northern-central Adriatic Sea and along the section of coast in between Alassio (Genoa) and Orbetello (Grosseto) for...

Poster presentation in XIII EUROPEAN BAT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM September 01- 05, 2014 Šibenik, Croatia.

Poster presentation at 4 th International Berlin Bat Meeting: Movement Ecology of Bats, Berlin 2015.

Negli ultimi anni il Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna ha promosso la realizzazione di alcuni approfondimenti sulla chirotterofauna. I risultati di questi studi hanno permesso non solo di definire in dettaglio la distribuzione e l’abbondanza relativa di almeno 20 specie, ma anche di approfondirne le preferenze eco...

Bioacoustics and ecoacoustics are emerging tools in biodiversity science and conservation: from the recognition and monitoring of individual species through to soundscape analysis and description, they provide new insights and approaches for science, conservation, and education. Ecoacoustics is an interdisciplinary science, derived from bioacoustic...

La Marmotta alpina Marmota marmota (Linnaeus, 1758) è una delle specie simbolo delle Alpi dove rappresenta sia in senso ecologico e sia in relazione alla sua human dimension un ruolo chiave anche nella prospettiva dei cambiamenti climatici in atto. Nel Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta da tempo si pone una specifica attenzione a questa specie emblemat...

Marmota marmota (Linnaeus, 1758) is an emblematic rodent species of the Alps, where it plays an important role in the ecology of high altitude pastures and seems also to be a sensible witness of climate changes. For the role in high mountain ecological landscape and in the trophic nets, the alpine marmots has been monitored for long time by Adamel...

HYSTRIX the Italian Journal of Mammalogy Volume 25 (Supplement) • 2014 published by Associazione Teriologica Italiana

In migratory species female‐ and male‐mediated gene flow are important for defining relevant Management Units, and for evaluating connectivity between these and their respective foraging grounds. The stock composition at five Mediterranean foraging areas was investigated by analysing variation in the mitochondrial D‐loop and six microsatellite loci...