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Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali vol. 95 2016 STUDI TRENTINI DI SCIENZE NATURALI Scopo della rivista e politica editoriale Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, rivista annuale del Museo delle Scienze, pubblica lavori scientifici originali nel campo delle scienze biologiche e geologiche, con particolare riferimento alla conoscenza e gestione del patrimonio naturale dell’arco alpino. Vengono pub- blicate diverse categorie di contributi: articoli, note brevi, revisioni tassonomiche, report tecnici. Occasionalmente ospita supplementi monografici (es. Atti di Convegno). La lingua ufficiale è l’italiano, tuttavia sono ben accetti lavori in lingua inglese. Tutti i lavori vengono sottoposti a referaggio. Dal 2016 la rivista viene pubblicata solo on-line. Tutti i contributi possono essere scaricati gratuitamente. Direttore Responsabile Michele Lanzinger Redazione Valeria Lencioni e Marco Avanzini Homepage della rivista http://www.muse.it/it/Editoria-Muse/Studi-Trentini-Storia-Naturale Comitato Scientifico del Museo delle Scienze Roberto Battiston, Università di Trento, Italia Luigi Boitani, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italia Barbara Mazzolai, Centro per la Micro-Biorobotica dell’Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italia Telmo Pievani, Università degli studi di Padova, Italia Roland Psenner, Università di Innsbruck, Austria Per acquisti on-line di volumi pregressi della rivista e di altri volumi editi dal Museo delle Scienze http://www2.muse.it/pubblicazioni/default.asp Referente: Claudia Marcolini, Tel. 0461 270309; Fax 0461 233830; e-mail: [email protected] Aut. Trib. Trento n. 43, Reg. Period. 02/12/1995 Realizzazione a cura di Publistampa Arti Grafiche, Pergine Valsugana, Trento, Italia mese di gennaio 2016 In copertina Calocybe pilosella (da M. Floriani e A. Vizzini, in questo volume) © Tutti i diritti riservati MUSE-Museo delle Scienze - 2016 La responsabilità di quanto riportato nel testo, nonché di eventuali errori e omissioni, rimane esclusivamente degli Autori. Associato all’Unione Stampa Periodica Italiana ISSN 2035-7699 Museo delle Scienze - Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, 38123 Trento, Italia - Tel. 0461 270301 - Fax: 0461 233830 Questo volume di Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali (95, 2016) è il primo nella sola edizione elettronica (versione PDF e ePub) disponibile sul sito del MUSE (www.muse.it/it/Editoria-Muse/Studi-Trentini-Storia-Naturale) / This volume of Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali (95, 2016) is the first one in only e-edition (PDF and ePub version) freely available on the MUSE website (www.muse.it/it/ Editoria-Muse/Studi-Trentini-Storia-Naturale) INDICE / CONTENTS Ilaria Marisa, Adriano Zanetti, Valeria Lencioni, Natalia Bragalanti, Luca Pedrotti, Mauro Gobbi Contributo alla conoscenza dei Coleotteri Stafilinidi (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) del Settore Trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Marco Floriani, Alfredo Vizzini Calocybe pilosella sp. nov., a distinctive new lyophylloid agaric collected near Trento (Italy) ................................................ 17 Antonio De Angeli Nuovi crostacei Cymonomidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) dell’Eocene dei Monti Berici (Vicenza, Italia settentrionale) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Stefano D’Alterio, Gianluca Romanelli Analisi floristica e vegetazionale dei prati aridi del Monte La Mesa (Rivoli Veronese VR, Nord Italia) ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Sergio Boschele, Roberto Gatto, Massimo Bernardi, Francesca R. Bosellini, Marco Avanzini Fossili cenozoici della Valsugana. Catalogo della “Collezione Boschele”, parte II ............................................................................................................. 53 Sergio Boschele, Roberto Gatto, Massimo Bernardi, Barbara Tattesi, R. Francesca Bosellini, Marco Avanzini Fossili cenozoici della Valsugana. Catalogo della “Collezione Boschele”, parte III ......................................................................................................... 103 bianca Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 95 (2016): 5-16 Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali vol. 95 Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 2016 ISSN 2532-7712 homepage: http://www.muse.it/it/Editoria-Muse/Studi-Trentini-Scienze-Naturali/Pagine/home.aspx © 2016 MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italia Articolo Contributo alla conoscenza dei Coleotteri Stafilinidi (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) del Settore Trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio Ilaria Marisa1, Adriano Zanetti2, Valeria Lencioni3, Natalia Bragalanti4, Luca Pedrotti4, Mauro Gobbi3* 1 Piazza San Marco 8, 38068 Rovereto (Trento, Italia) 2 Sezione di Zoologia, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9, 37129 Verona (Italia) 3 Sezione di Zoologia degli Invertebrati e Idrobiologia, Museo delle Scienze, Viale del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, 38123 Trento (Italia) 4 Consorzio del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Comitato di Gestione per la Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Via Roma 65, 38024 Cogolo di Peio (Trento, Italia) Parole chiave Riassunto • biogeografia Il presente lavoro si pone come obiettivo quello di fornire il primo contributo alla conoscenza delle • checklist cenosi di Stafilinidi presenti nel Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio (Settore Trentino). Il censimento delle • foreste montane comunità è avvenuto mediante l’impiego di trappole a caduta posizionate all’interno di dieci tipolo- • aree aperte gie di habitat differenti per quota e tipologia vegetazionale. In totale sono state raccolte 121 specie, • ricchezza di specie la più abbondante è risultata Philonthus decorus. Le specie a distribuzione euro-sibirica ed euro- • Alpi pea sono risultate le più numerose. Quindici specie possiedono particolare rilevanza faunistica e biogeografica e di esse vengono fornite informazioni inerenti l’ecologia e la distribuzione sia all’in- terno del Parco che in aree limitrofe. Le aree ad arbusti contorti sono quelle più ricche di specie, Key words mentre le laricete pascolate sono quelle più povere. La ricchezza di specie diminuisce con la quota, mentre la tipologia di bosco, così come la tipologia di prati, non hanno effetto sulla ricchezza di • biogeography specie. La tipologia di habitat guida invece la composizione delle comunità. • checklist • montane forests • open areas Summary • species richness • Alps The aim of this paper is to contribute to the knowledge of the rove beetles (Staphylini-dae) in the Stelvio National Park (Trentino Area). Ten areas, different in elevation and vegetation type, were sampled by pitfall traps. A total of 121 species were sampled, Philonthus decorus resulted the * Autore corrispondente: most abundant. The Euro-siberian and European species are the most abundant. Fifteen spe- e-mail: [email protected] cies have particular faunistic and biogeographic relevance, thus we furnish information about their ecology and distribution both in the Park as well in adjacent areas. Scrublands are the habitats with the highest species richness while the pastoral larch woodlands are those with the lowest. Elevation affect negatively the specie richness, while the woodland typology as well the grassland typology has not effect on the species richness. On the other hand, the habitat typol- ogies affect the assemblages composition. Redazione: Valeria Lencioni e Marco Avanzini pdf: http://www.muse.it/it/Editoria-Muse/Studi-Trentini-Scienze-Naturali/Pagine/STSN/STSN_95-2016.aspx ePub: http://www.muse.it/it/Editoria-Muse/Studi-Trentini-Scienze-Naturali/Pagine/STSN/STSN_95-2016.aspx Marisa I., Zanetti A., Lencioni V., Bragalanti N., Pedrotti L. & Gobbi M., 2016 – Contributo alla conoscenza dei Coleotteri Stafilinidi (Coleo- ptera: Staphylinidae) del Settore Trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 95: 5-16. 6 / Stafilinidi del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio (TN) Introduzione Il settore Trentino del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio ha un’esten- sione di 17.560 ettari ed è collocato nel gruppo montuoso Ort- Gli Stafilinidi (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) sono una delle fami- les-Cevedale. Il 70% della superficie è posta sopra i 2000 m di quo- glie di Coleotteri che presenta il maggior numero di specie e a livel- ta, mentre al di sotto di questa, e quindi nel restante 30%, si trovano lo globale (59.394 specie note al 22 ottobre 2013, Newton, com. ambienti forestali (boschi di latifoglie e boschi di conifere), ambienti pers.). Essi inoltre hanno colonizzato quasi tutti i tipi di habitat aperti (prati naturali, radure, prati da sfalcio e pascoli) e aree antro- (Bohac 1999). Sono insetti che includono sia specie ad alta vagilità, pizzate.
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    Supplemental Data. Mandáková et al. (2010). Plant Cell 10.1105/tpc.110.074526 Supplemental Figure 1. A Three-Way Comparison of the Relative Position of Corresponding Synteny Blocks of Stenopetalum nutans (SN), S. lineare (SL) and Ballantinia antipoda (BA) Relative to the Reference Ancestral Crucifer Karyotype (ACK). In the main panel of the image, each of the three modern karyotypes is presented in a radial layout. Within each of the three karyotypes, ideograms are ordered and oriented in the outward direction (corresponding to the same counter-clockwise scale progression of Figure 3). Each line connects a pair of genomic positions on two different modern genomes that are syntenically related to the same genomic block in the ACK. For example, the light-blue line at the top of the figure between SL and SN corresponds to synteny with the genomic block U2 on AK7. Each of the eight small panels shows synteny relationships between the three modern genomes for a specific ancestral chromosome (AK1-8). Supplemental Data. Mandáková et al. (2010). Plant Cell 10.1105/tpc.110.074526 Supplemental Figure 2. The Unique Rearrangement of the AK8(#1)-like Homoeologue Shared by All Analyzed Species. This rearrangement was mediated by two subsequent paracentric inversions involving two thirds of genomic block W1 and a major part of X1. In S. lineare, block V1 underwent a secondary translocation to another chromosome. The rearrangement not shown for Arabidella eremigena and Blennodia canescens. Supplemental Data. Mandáková et al. (2010). Plant Cell 10.1105/tpc.110.074526 Supplemental Figure 3. Phylogeny of the Malate Synthase (MS) (TrN + Γ + I) Showing the Position of Sequences from the Australian Species (in Bold) in the Context of Other Brassicaceae Taxa.