Rinaldo Nicoli Aldini

• Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Raphidioptera

Megaloptera

Neuroptera

Livestock farms represent a source of attraction for other species, which find food resources on the animals themselves, in the food supplied to them, in their manure, etc. Insect farms too can suffer infestation by different organisms living on substrates or behaving as parasites and/or predators. Breeding of the black soldier fly (BSF), Hermetia...

An emergence trap for woodpile insects, assembled in the coppice holm oak forest of San Gregorio (SE-Sardinia), captured few specimens of only two species of Neuropterida, but these were very interesting ones: Isoscelipteron glaserellum (U. Aspöck, H. Aspöck et Hölzel, 1979) (Neuroptera Berothidae), new to Italy, and Dendroleon pantherinus (Fabrici...

To assess the susceptibility of pseudocereals (amaranth and quinoa), minor cereals (teff and millet), and oilseeds (chia and hemp), now commercially available on the European market, to attacks by polyphagous and cosmopolitan insect pests, laboratory tests were set up. Tests involving controlled infestation of seeds, using laboratory-bred insects (...

PSEUDO-CEREALS AND FOODSTUFF INSECTS Among plants which can be used in human nutrition, the so-called pseudocereals are gaining in popularity due to their high nutritional value and other properties. The grains of these plants can be consumed as such or transformed into flour to obtain bread, pasta or other derivatives, in the place of traditional...

MORTALITY OF STORED-FOOD BEETLE LARVAE EXPOSED TO A CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE ENRICHED WITH NITROGEN AND CONTAINING ABOVE-MINIMUM LEVELS OF OXYGEN Insect pests of stored foodstuffs can cause different types of damage. The larval stage is often the chief culprit, causing serious damage to food commodities while being the most resistant to hypoxic treat...

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AS A STRATEGY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF AWARENESS AND APPLICATION OF PEST MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS Insects form the largest animal group on the planet, are in continuous evolution and have innumerable specificities. PCOs, Pest Control Operators who intervene daily to control infestations by insects and other animals, need to acquire...

TYPHAEA STERCOREA (LINNAEUS, 1758) (COLEOPTERA MYCETOPHAGIDAE), AN INSECT PEST SOMETIMES MISUNDERSTOOD Although it is not considered one of the beetles which most commonly infest foodstuffs and may be little known to some pest control operators, the micetophagid Typhaea stercorea (Linnaeus, 1758) is present with significant frequency among the bee...

PEST CONTROL MANAGEMENT IN A TOMATO PROCESSING PLANT IN NORTHERN ITALY Pest control management in a food factory has to deal both with problems common to different types of production caused by ubiquitous pests, and with problems typical of a specific production chain, as well as particular critical issues related to the location of a given plant...

The growing demand for healthy foods has recently brought new kinds of products to the Italian market to meet consumers’ needs. Currently, quinoa, teff and hemp seeds can be found quite commonly in most stores, as whole or broken grains or flour. These products can be susceptible to pest attacks in different stages of the production process: from s...

The growing demand for healthy foods has recently brought new kinds of products to the Italian market to meet consumers’ needs. Currently, quinoa, teff and hemp seeds can be found quite commonly in most stores, as whole or broken grains or flour. These products can be susceptible to pest attacks in different stages of the production process: from s...

In conservation agriculture, slugs are considered significant pests and their monitoring is a key option in the integrated pest management framework. Together with molluscicide applications, predators such as ground beetles can offer a tool for slug control in the field. Through the evaluation of slug and ground beetle monitoring strategies, this w...

The pattern of egg deposition, the morphology of the eggs and particularly the fine structure of the chorion surface examined by means of the scanning electron microscope (SEM) can provide useful elements for discriminating subfamilies, genera and species in green lace wings (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae). Observations are now available in the world lit...

With his work, De animalibus insectis (1602), Ulisse Aldrovandi occupies a prominent place in the history of entomology. Of particular interest in this volume are the many original descriptions and woodcuts of insects. Partly due to the 'Tavole di animali' [Tables of animals] − illustrations drawn and watercoloured by hand, made by the author previ...

Cases of morphological abnormalities concerning Neuropterida have been published only rarely. If we neglect the deformities observable less rarely in the wings of the three orders of these insects (Megaloptera, Raphidioptera, Neuroptera), which result from defective adult emergence, or certain modest and recurrent anomalies in wing venation, it see...

La quinoa, anche dove in passato non è mai stata coltivata, è oggetto di attacco da parte di gruppi di insetti polifagi che possono dar luogo a infestazioni anche importanti. Negli anni non sono state osservate differenze di attacchi fra le cultivar saggiate e si sono evidenziati gruppi di insetti differenti nelle diverse fasi fenologiche della col...

Morphological, distributional and eco-ethological data on the carpet beetle Attagenus lobatus Rosenhauer (Coleoptera Dermestidae) are reported, based on original observations. A. lobatus is a household and stored product species with a primarily Palaearctic distribution , secondarily Holarctic due to passive dispersion by man. This species is not v...

Research on ants (Hymenoptera Formicidae) in a food factory in the province of Latina (Lazio, central Italy) was carried out over several years up to 2013. The investigation started during the 1990s, and was conducted principally by examining specimens caught in light traps placed indoors on the factory premises. A smaller number of ants was collec...

Riassunto – La presenza nel nord Italia di Coniopteryx (Holoconiopteryx) renate Rausch et Aspöck è segnalata in base a un reperto effettuato nell'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano, in territorio parmense. Viene illustrata la morfologia dei terminalia maschili della specie, in precedenza nota solo per Italia meridionale (Basilicata, Calabria), Sicilia e Ungh...

Sicily, the largest Mediterranean island, is surrounded by many small islands (Aeolian Islands, Ustica, Aegadian Islands, Pantelleria, Linosa, Lampedusa, Maltese Islands), some of which forming archipelagoes. The authors, after a historical sketch of the research on Neuropterida in Sicily (sensu lato), analyze the biodiversity of the area, highligh...

KEY WORDS When Giambattista Tiepolo, in his painting 'Triumph of Zephyr and Flora', gave Zephyr dragonfly like wings with eyespots, was he inspired by pure imagination or did he have an insect he had previously seen in mind: the rare and astonishing Pseudimares? It is impossible to be sure. The authors of the present note point out the innovatory c...

Riassunto – Nel corso della sua lunga attività scientifica Michele Medici, insigne fisiologo e anatomista del XIX secolo, medico primario nell'Ospedale Maggiore in Bologna e docente di fisiologia nell'Ateneo felsineo, scrisse anche su argomenti di entomologia e botanica. Indubbiamente la sua fama si colloca principalmente nell'ambito della storia d...

Beetles which develop boring tunnels inside and feed on seasoned wood present morphological and physiological adaptations related to the specific activities of their larvae in such a peculiar substrate. As far as protection of antiquarian goods made of wood is concerned, we are dealing mainly with three Coleoptera families, namely Lyctidae, Anobiid...

A new Mediterranean species of antlion, Myrmeleon mariaemathildae n. sp., is described on material from Sardinia (Italy) and Tunisia. The new species, small in size with a relatively pale habitus, can be distinguished from all the other known species of Myrmeleon in the West Palearctic area on the basis of a set of chromatic characteristics, extern...

As far as we know, about two-thirds of the whole Italian Neuropterida fauna (Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera) are present in northeastern Italy (i.e. in the so-called " Triveneto " , corresponding to the administrative regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia) and almost all the families reported in Italy (with the e...

Gymnocnemia variegata (Schneider, 1845) (Myrmeleontidae Myrmeleontinae), the only species belonging to the genus Gymnocnemia, is a Turanian-Mediterranean antlion. As this species is found rarely, available information on its biology is very occasional and insufficient. The larva does not construct pitfall traps, and acts as a sit-and-wait predator...

The results are given of the Hemiptera collection excursions in the Mont Avic Natural Park (Aosta Valley, NW Italy) that took place during the 4th European Hemiptera Congress held in Ivrea in September 2007. Altogether 126 species of Heteroptera, belonging to 89 genera, 108 species of Auchenorrhyncha, belonging to 75 genera, and 30 species of Stern...

Further findings of the Nearctic hopper Acanalonia conica (Say) (Fulgoromorpha Acanaloniidae) in Lombardy and Veneto (N Italy) in the years 2004-2007 are reported. These records update our knowledge on the distribution of this hopper in Italy and they possibly indicate its progression towards the West in the northern Italian regions. Bio-ecological...

The great naturalist from Bologna, Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605), is an important representative of scientific humanism in the late Renaissance: his activity was largely characterized by the re-elaboration of the knowledge of the Classical World and the Middle Ages. In his entomological work De Animalibus Insectis Libri Septem (1602), his interest...

The behaviour of presocial bees (Hymenoptera Apoidea) Apoidea is a large superfamily belonging to the order Hymenoptera and consisting of bees, which are very important as regards both basic and applied research. Bees have an especially diverse social organization ranging from the extremes of solitary to highly eusocial species. The present work ai...

Biogeographia vol. XX VI - 2005 (Pubbiicaro i130 Dicernbre 2005) Biogeograffa delle Alpi e Prealpi centro-on'entaIi I Neurotteri (Insecta Neuropterida) della Val Carnonica e del Parco Naturale dell’Adamell0 (Alpi e Prealpi Lombarde): materiali per urfanalisi zoogeografica del popolamento RINALDO NICOLI ALDINI Istituto di Entomologzkz e Pcztologzisz...

For 2 consecutive years, some observations on gregarious sleeping in the solitary bee Amegilla (s. str.) garrula (Rossi) (Hymenoptera Anthophoridae Anthophorini) were conducted in the Province of Pavia (Northern Italy). During the summer of 1991 a few data were collected concerning size, composition and seasonal dynamics of the sleeping aggregation...

As far as we know, about two-thirds of the whole Italian Neuropterida fauna (Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera) are present in north-eastern Italy (i.e. in the so-called "Triveneto", corresponding to the administrative regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia) and almost all the families reported in Italy (with the exc...