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A monitoring project focused on saproxylic beetles of “Sasso Fratino Integral Nature Reserve” (Bagno di Romagna, FC), allowed to confirm the presence of the bark beetle Eidophelus caucasicus (Lindemann, 1877) for the Italian fauna. This species was previously known only for “Venezia Tridentina” (corresponding to the current Trentino-South Tyrol) fr...

During the last years, we had the opportunity of extensive collecting of Curculionoidea Latreille, 1802 in Friuli region, northeastern Italy. The surveyed area, centered mainly in Val Resia, a relatively wide west-east axis river valley surrounded by quite high mountains peaking in Monte Canin (m 2587 a.s.l.), is located at the border between Italy...

Il Museo Naturalistico Archeologico di Vicenza conserva più di 35.000 esemplari di coleotteri. In particolare la collezione entomologica Faustino Cussigh conta più di 26.000 esemplari principalmente di coleotteri del Vicentino. Inoltre, dal 2021 è in corso il progetto Coleotteri dei Colli Berici che ha come obiettivo finale la pubblicazione di un l...

“Una smodata passione per i coleotteri: storie di insetti e di entomologi vicentini” racconta l’importanza e il fascino di un ordine d’insetti – quello dei Coleoptera – con la maggior biodiversità sul pianeta. Dalle coccinelle agli scarabei, passando per la dorifora e le lucciole, i coleotteri impressionano per le loro forme, i loro colori e le lor...

Research activity aimed at monitoring saproxylic beetles inside “Vette Feltrine Nature Reserve” (Sovramonte, BL), after thestorm of October 2018, permitted to confirm the hooded beetleOrthoperus punctatusWankowicz, 1865 for the Italian fauna.This species was previously known only for Sicily as an old record (Porta, 1926), no longer confirmed for It...

An annotated catalogue of Coleoptera Curculionoidea of “Monte Grappa” Biosphere Reserve is presented. The 528 species surveyed, divided into 7 families and 283 genera and subgenera, include the 265 species already known, plus the 263 are reported for the first time for the area. Faunistic, chorological and ecological information is given for all th...

This is the preview of the volume dedicated to the Curculionoidea beetles of the Man and Biosphere Reserve (MaB) of Monte Grappa (NE-Italy). The book, edited by World Biodiversity Association, will be officially released the 24th of February 2023.

Background: Bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) are amongst the most important wood- boring insects introduced to Europe. During field investigations conducted between 2019 and 2021 in different countries and regions of Europe, many exotic species have been recorded providing new and relevant data. New information: Dryoxylon onohara...

L’esigenza di studiare la fauna dei Coleotteri delle 10 Riserve Naturali dello Stato gestite dal Reparto Carabinieri Biodiversità di Belluno, al fine di approfondirne le conoscenze, ha messo in evidenza la necessità di disporre di uno strumento “agile” per la determinazione delle numerose famiglie di Coleotteri della nostra fauna. Da questa necessi...

In questo studio vengono presi in esame i Coleotteri (Carabidae e Staphylinidae esclusi) raccolti con pitfall trap lungo due transetti altitudinali situati sui versanti meridionali delle Vette Feltrine e del Monte Grave, all'interno del Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi. Il progetto "Monitoraggio della biodiversità in ambiente alpino" individua co...

New data on Odonata of Belluno Province Ten years after the previous work on the Odonata of the Province of Belluno (Dal Cortivo et al., 2009), here is presented an update of the checklist, with the reporting of a new species for the provincial territory, together with additional data for the distribution of some relevant species, for the majority...

The updated Odonata checklist of the Belluno Province, based on field investigations and literature data, includes 46 taxa, roughly 50% of the Italian dragonfly fauna. The most represented chorotypes are the European and Asiatic-European; three taxa have boreo-alpine distribution. The examined area is borderline between areals of Sibirico-oriental...

Introduzione L'area presa in esame (Fig. 1) è molto interessante dal punto di vista della geologia, botanica, zoologia e particolarmente dell'entomologia: sono stati monitora-ti i Coleotteri saproxilici, i Lepidotteri delle radure e i macroivertebrati acquatici (Dal Cortivo et al., 2007; Hardersen et al., 2008). Il lavoro che qui viene presen-tato...

The abandonment of silvicultural activities can lead to changes in species richness and composition of biological communities, when compared to those found in managed forests. The aim of this study was to compare the multi-taxonomical diversity of two mature silver fir-beech-spruce forests in the southern Dolomites (Italy), corresponding to the Eur...

During research conducted in northern Italy for the State Forestry Service LIFE Nature project, a single male specimen of the scolytine ambrosia beetle Monarthrum mali (Fitch) was collected in an ethanol-baited window flight trap. Trapping started in 2005, but the species was first collected in August 2007, suggesting that the establishment of M. m...

This research is a contribution to an integrated overview of the alpine low-order river ecosystem. We associated the results obtained from colonization and breakdown processes (functional aspects, i.e. colonization of natural and artificial leaf packs and of artificial inorganic substrates), with the morpho-hydrological features of the river bed, w...