MAURIZIO GUIDO PAOLETTI's research while affiliated with University of Padova and other places

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Terrestrial isopods are generally considered as detritivore invertebrates, but in recent years and in different parts of the world they seem to become potential agricultural pests for different crops. The crops affected so far have been mainly arable crops, but damages to few horticultural crops were also documented. Until now, no referenced proble...
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Eight species in the family Scleropactidae are recorded from Venezuela. Three species are described as new: Colomboscia venezuelana n. sp. from the departments of Aragua and Miranda, Globopactes cristalinae n. sp. from the department of Trujillo, and Globopactes mucuyensis n. sp. from the department of Mérida. Globopactes senex and Neosanfilippia v...
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Prof. Pietro Omodeo (University of Siena, Italy), the world-renowned earthworm taxonomist and evolutionary biologist, was born in Cefalù, Sicily, Italy on the 27th September, 1919. He celebrates his 100th birthday in 2019 and members of the international community of earthworm taxonomists salute him with Petroscolex centenarius gen. et sp. nov., a...
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DNA barcoding of 172 anecic Octodrilus specimens collected in NE Italy and bordering Croatia has been carried out. The Bayesian phylogenetic tree showed high support for almost all currently recognized species, however, some unexpected results also appeared. The clade representing Oc. pseudocomplanatus contains a highly advanced subclade, which mor...

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... Terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) comprise more than 4,000 species in more than 500 genera in 39 families (Schmalfuss 2003;Sfenthourakis and Taiti 2015;Dimitriou et al. 2019;Campos-Filho et al. 2021). The family Platyarthridae Verhoeff, 1949 comprises 139 species in nine genera, including the genus Trichorhina Budde-Lund, 1908 (Sfenthourakis and Taiti 2015;Bezerra-Pereira et al. 2023). ...
... First, the vine plot is newly planted (2019), and effects on diversification might be not yet visible such as suggested by Tixier et al. (2015) and Barbar et al. (2006) studying agroforestry effects on Phytoseiidae in vineyards. Second, the systems studied are close to each other bordered by same uncultivated vegetation, which can have masked cover crop effects due to Phytoseiidae colonization by aerial dispersal from neighbouring uncultivated plants (Tixier et al. 1998(Tixier et al. , 2000aDuso et al. 2004;Gavinelli et al. 2020). However, some trends can be noted. ...
... Despite this, scientists still use the features connected with reproductive organs for earthworm taxonomy, species identification, and higher taxa classification (Sims, 1980;Timm and Martin, 2015). Usually, the overall morphology, number, and segmental localization of reproductive organs (e.g., gonads, reproductive tracts, genital pores, and genital markings) are recorded (e.g., Csuzdi et al., 2019Csuzdi et al., , 2015Lone et al., 2022). Much less attention is paid to the histology and ultrastructure of the reproductive system. ...
... The identification of the specimens we collected was performed in three steps: 1) Adult specimens were assigned to morphospecies according to external (and if necessary, internal) morphological characters established in Bouché (1972), Qiu & Bouché (1998a, b) and Csuzdi et al. (2018). ...