I MACROLEPIDOTTERI ITALIANI Fauna Lepidopterorum Italiae (Macrolepidoptera)

More than sixty years after the publication of “Fauna Lepidopterorum Italiae” by Mariani, it is considered necessary to update the knowledge about Macrolepidoptera distribution in Italy.
This paper proposes some thirty years of research and reasoned bibliographical references collection plus new collection data. The job allows collating the today most complete body of information about Italian macrolepidoptera.
Unfortunately printing the whole catalogue will result in a more than 800 pages book so that it was preferred to print a full concise list of species containing: the reference for the species described from Italy; related loci typici; some notes and the concise list of regions where they are collected.
By side you find the CD containing the complete text with further information: a plenty of new collection data; the analytical occurrence of the species in region; the species occurrence that refers to the actual collection year and time of flight and is split in fifty (ante 1901) and twenty-five (from 1901) years time lapse; first and last regional reference.
Totally 2388 species are listed, taxonomically sorted, and ranked with an index number useful from the index name search.
Reference data flow from 3526 references published from 1713 to 31st December 2005 plus few selected paper in the press during 2006. All references are fully listed and ordered by publication date. Each reference has a proper index number you find in the text in place of the more usual Author’s name and reference year. The use of this index number helps to make concise the body of the text.
Some papers are still unavailable, of course. We marked by an "*" the “not seen” references. The data of not seen references are “second-hand information” arising from other papers.
Second hand information is often referred to ante-1800 bibliographical source. Ancient reports or books have not been ignored to allow us a better understanding of Lepidoptera knowledge during ages.