Publications

Total publications: 23

2025

  1. New species of rose gall wasp Diplolepis Geoffroy, 1762 (Hymenoptera: Diplolepididae) and its parasitoid Orthopelma Taschenberg, 1865 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) on a rare endemic rose species in Sichuan, China. Zootaxa, 5706 (2), 231-246. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5706.2.5
  2. Another needle in the haystack: a new species of the rare genus Masona van Achterberg, 1995 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and updates to the global key. Biologia, 19 , 3069–3078. doi:10.1007/s11756-025-02022-2
  3. Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). Zootaxa, 5631 (1), 1-51. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1
  4. Updated list of Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of Italy. Biodiversity Data Journal, 13 , e139683. doi:10.3897/BDJ.12.e139683

2024

  1. Revision of the Afrotropical genus Protoleptops Heinrich, 1967 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new species from Burundi. Zookeys, 1214 , 197-216. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1214.131071
  2. A host driven parasitoid syndrome: convergent evolution of multiple traits associated with woodboring hosts in Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea). PLoS ONE, 19 (9), e0311365. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0311365
  3. Species richness estimation of the Afrotropical Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Plos One, 19 (7), e0307404. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0307404
  4. A new record of Coelichneumon rufofemoratus (Cameron, 1903) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Eastern Himalayas, with a checklist of all the species of the genus from the Oriental region. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 50 (2), 32-50. doi:10.12976/jib/2024.50.2.1
  5. Revision of Nearctic Eparces (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ichneumoninae): description Eparces australis Claridge & Dal Pos sp. nov., nomenclatural notes, and new records of Eparces quadriceps (Cresson, 1867). Zootaxa, 5453 (4), 549-557. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5453.4.5
  6. Small jewels: two new species of the rare genus Masona van Achterberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae), with a catalogue of world species and comments on the peculiar morphology of the genus. European Journal of Taxonomy, 925 , 135-160. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.925.2457

2023

  1. A revised terminology for male genitalia in Hymenoptera (Insecta), with a special emphasis on Ichneumonoidea. PeerJ, 11 , e15874. doi:http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15874
  2. Still counting: new records, nomenclatural notes, and three new species of Phaeogenini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) from the Afrotropical region. European Journal of Taxonomy, 868 , 1-71. doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.868.2105

2022

  1. Platylabini (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ichneumoninae) of the south-eastern United States: new distributional data, taxonomic notes, illustrated keys, and an annotated catalogue of the genera and species. Journal of Natural History, 56 (45-48), 1869-1938. doi:10.1080/00222933.2022.2134061
  2. The Giordani Soika collection of Eumeninae at the Natural History Museum of Venice Giancarlo Ligabue: catalogue of species and type specimens (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Zootaxa, 5137 (1), 1-111. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5137.1
  3. The future of zoological taxonomy is integrative, not minimalist. Systematics and Biodiversity, 20 (1), 1-14. doi:10.1080/14772000.2022.2063964
  4. DNA barcodes on their own are not enough to describe a species. Systematic Entomology, 20 (1), 1-14. doi:10.1111/syen.12538

2019

  1. Darwin wasps: a new name heralds renewed efforts to unravel the evolutionary history of Ichneumonidae. Entomological Communications, 1 ( ec010), 1-4. doi:10.37486/2675-1305.ec01006
  2. Contribution to the Afrotropical Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Gabon and Sierra Leone, with description of five new species and two new subspecies. Linzer biologische Beitrage, 51 ( 1), 419-436.

2018

  1. First record of the genus Genaemirum (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) from West Africa, with the description of a new species from Guinea. European Journal of Taxonomy, (473), 1-11. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.473

2017

  1. First record of Ibalia jakowlewi, Jacobson, 1899, and of the subgenus Tremibalia for Italy (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Ibaliidae). Bollettino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 68 , 53-57.
  2. First records of the parasitoid wasp genus Saotis Forster, 1869 for Italy (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ctenopelmatinae, Mesoleiini). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 68 , 59-62.
  3. Zombrus bicolor (Enderlein, 1912): evidence of its establishment in Italy (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae). Onychium, 13 , 39-43.
  4. Rediscovery and redescription of the holotype of Stephanus (Distephanus) [sic!] athesinus Biegeleben, 1929, with comments on its identity and new distributional data for Megischus anomalipes (Förster, 1855) (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae). Lavori - Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali, 42 , 5-14.