Alessia Tatti

University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia

The leafhopper genus Arboridia includes several species that feed on Vitis vinifera and cause leaf chlorosis. We report the first alien Arboridia infestation in Italy in 2021 in an Apulian vineyard. To confirm the taxonomic status of the species responsible for crop damage, and reconstruct its demographic history, we barcoded individuals from Apuli...

Aedes japonicus and Aedes koreicus are two invasive mosquitoes native to East Asia that are quickly establishing in temperate regions of Europe. Both species are vectors of arboviruses, but we currently lack a clear understanding of their evolution. Here, we present new short-read, shallow genome sequencing of A. japonicus and A. koreicus individua...

The leafhopper genus Arboridia includes several species that feed on Vitis vinifera and cause leaf chlorosis. We report the first alien Arboridia infestation in Italy in 2021 in an Apulian organic vineyard. To confirm the taxonomic status of the species responsible for crop damage, and reconstruct its demographic history, we barcoded individuals fr...

In the last few years, blistering symptoms were observed on apple plants in commercial orchards. Blisters are commonly found on apple leaves as well as on small fruits. This symptom is compatible with that described for apple blister mites belonging to the genus Eriophyes (Eriophyidae). To assess the identity of the etiological agent, leaf blisters...

A new species, Leucoagaricus cupresseoides, from a pine forest in Castelfusano, Rome, Italy, is described based on both morphological and molecular analyses. Updated morphological descriptions of Leucoagaricus aurantiovergens and L. pseudopilatianus are presented due to new collections from Italy and confirmed by nrITS sequence analysis of the type...

Three new species of Leucocoprinus (Lc. tephrolepis, Lc. parvipileus, Lc. domingensis) are described, based on material from the Dominican Republic and the US Virgin Islands. These species belong in the Lc. heinemannii species complex, based on their morphological and molecular characteristics. The type collection of Lc. heinemannii was sequenced,...

Lepiota psalion is fully described based on a recent collection from Sardinia (Italy) and the holotype. NrITS-and nrLSU-based phylogeny demonstrates that sequences deposited in GenBank as "L. psalion" and generated from two Dutch and one Chinese collections are not conspecific with the holotype and represent two distinct, undescribed species. These...

Leucoagaricus idae-fragum, a nice and very rare pink-lilac lepiotoid species originally described from France, was put into synonymy with the North American taxon Lepiota decorata by Vellinga (2006), only on a morphological basis. In this paper, the independent position of L. idae-fragum from L. decorata is pointed out, based upon the phylogenetic...

In this contribution, new data concerning bryophytes, fungi and lichens of the Italian flora are presented. It includes new records and confirmations for the bryophyte genera Campylopus, Paludella, Tortula, and Conocephalum, the fungal genera Agonimia, Buelliella, Entorrhiza, Filicupula, Poronia, and Sporisorium, the lichen genera Cladonia, Dibaeis...

Riassunto: È descritta e illustrata con fotografie a colori e disegni di microscopia una raccolta di Leucopaxillus monticola dal Monte Limbara, la prima per la flora micologica della Sardegna. Abstract: A collection of Leucopaxillus monticola from the Limbara mountain, the first one for the mycological flora of Sardinia,is described and illustrate...