WBA Monographs

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Le piante di Francesco Calzolari
Author:            Daniele Zanini
Editor:             World Biodiversity Association onlus Verona
Edition:            WBA Monographs – Vol. 1
Year:               2011
Languages:      Italian
Pages:             644
Size:                A4 (cm 21 x 29,7)
ISBN Code:      978-88-906379-0-2
ISSN Code:      2239-8554
Paper:              FSC paper
Price:               the sale is allowed only to WBA members
Member Price:  € 30.00

This prestigious work has a great scientific and historical value and is the fruit of a very long labour of WBA member prof. Daniele Zanini who, with this volume, pays homage to Francesco Calzolari and to his plants. The book is dedicated to the precursor of the veronese naturalism and represents the definitive recognition of the value of Calzolari as naturalist, as well as chemist. The spirit that animated Calzolari in his herborizations on the botanical mountain lives again, intact, in the rigorous and meticulous analysis of Zanini of over 450 plants enumerated by Calzolari in The Travel of Monte Baldo of the Wonderful City of Verona of 1566, preserved in his Theatrum Naturae, cited in his epistles and used in his famous Theriaca. Each one of these species is furnished with a report with historical, botanical and pharmacological informations. This work can represent also an important instrument in evaluating the environmental modifications elapsed in the last centuries in the veronese region, through a comparative analysis between the plants living in the sixteenth century and the ones living today in this territory. The changes, often caused by man, can help us in understanding how important is to consider these aspects in the the land-use planning, before realizing changes of great impact on the environment.

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Il genere Copris Müller
Tassonomia, filogenesi e note di zoogeografia
Authors:          Rita Marchisio, Mario Zunino
Editor:             World Biodiversity Association onlus Verona
Edition:            WBA Monographs – Vol. 2
Year:               2012
Languages:      Italian (summary in English)
Pages:            176
Size:               A4 (cm 21 x 29,7)
ISBN Code:     978-88-906379-1-9
ISSN Code:     2239-8554
Paper:             FSC and Biodiversity Friend paper
Price:              € 35.00
Member Price: € 25.00

It is an important taxonomic work by Rita Marchisio (prematurely dead on January 2011) and by prof. Mario Zunino of the University of Urbino. The work (in italian and english abstract) is a critical analysis of the systematics of the genus Copris Müller 1764, a group of Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) distributed in Africa, Eurasia and in both North and Central America.
In the work the genus Copris is redefined, considering Microcopris as a taxon of subgenus rank, while Paracopris, Litocopris and Pseudopedaria are considered synonyms of Copris s. str. Pseudocopris is also considered, albeit with some reserve, as a synonym of Copris s. str. Then, the different afrotropical groups (hispanus, laioides, orion, mesacanthus, typhoeus, diversus, sinon), american groups (lugubris, armatus, rebouchei) and Oriental Regions and Paleartic groups  (sacontala, lunaris) are discussed. For two Afro-tropical species, a new genus Afrontherus is preliminarily proposed. The last part of the work formulates a few hypotheses regarding the phylogenetic relations of the genus Copris and of the identified groups within it.

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