Marco Uliana  

Marco Uliana collecting at Wadi Seer, Jordan, April 2009. x x

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Marco graduated in Natural Sciences and holds a PhD in Evolutionary Biology. His research was on color patterns in Coleoptera. Since 2007 he is the Curator of the Entomology section at the Natural History Museum of Venice.

Within scarabs, his interests are taxonomy, biogeography, and ecology of palearctic non-coprophagous Scarabaeoidea. His current research is focused on Old World Glaphyridae, and he is working towards a comprehensive revision of the species occurring in the western Palearctic. He also has a special interest in ecology and life-history of the Palearctic cetonids.

Besides Scarabaeoidea, he is interested in regional ecology, faunistics, and conservation of insects. His activities are mainly devoted to Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, but he also conducts surveys on invasive species of other orders. He is one of the coordinators of the ARVe project, a collective faunistic survey aiming to give a detailed distribution of the butterflies of the Veneto Region: www.farfalleveneto.eu. In the past he worked on geophilomorph Chilopoda, dealing mainly with taxonomy of Asiatic Mecistocephalidae and developing a web catalogue of worldwide Chilopoda: http://chilobase.bio.unipd.it/.

He has conducted field activities in Italy, Croatia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey. Since 2001he has published over 50 papers, both scientific and popular.

Marco Uliana

Email: marcouliana@inwind.it

Selected Publications: 

Scarabaeoidea 

• Keith D., Uliana M. (2008) Contribution to the knowledge of Iranian Pygopleurus with description of P. rapuzzii n. sp. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae). Zootaxa 1825: 59-64.
• Sabatinelli G., Uliana M. (2009)  Description of Pygopleurus keithi, n. sp. from North Syria (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Glaphyridae). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 60: 33-39.
• Uliana M., Sabatinelli G., (2010) -  Revision of Eulasia genei Truqui, with description of Eulasia rittneri n. sp. from Israel and synonymic notes on relates species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae). Zootaxa. 2346: 28-56.

Popular (book chapters)

• Uliana M., Minelli A. (2007) – Invertebrati. In: Minelli A. (ed.), I boschi montani di conifere. Quaderni Habitat, 18. Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare - Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale:  63-99.
• Uliana M. (2009) – Gli insetti delle valli da pesca. In: AA.VV., Valli veneziane. Natura, storia e tradizioni delle valli da pesca a Venezia e Caorle. Ed. Cicero, 49-59.
• Uliana M., Minelli A.(2009) – Gli invertebrati degli ambienti terrestri. In: Minelli A. (ed.), Lagune, estuari e delta. Quaderni Habitat, 23. Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare - Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale: 93-111.

Other

• Uliana M., 2003 – Lathropus sepicola (P.H. W. Müller, 1821): osservazioni bio-etologiche e descrizione degli stadi preimmaginali (Coleoptera Cucujidae Laemophloeinae). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 54: 71-85.
• D’Urso V., Uliana M. (2006) - Acanalonia conica (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Acanaloniidae), a Nearctic species recently introduced in Europe. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 53: 103–107.
• Uliana M., Bonato L., Minelli A. (2007) – The Mecistocephalidae of the Japanese and Taiwanese islands (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha). Zootaxa 1396: 3-84.
• Bonato L., Zamprogno E., Bettiol K., Zamprogno B., Uliana M. (2009) – Le comunità di farfalle diurne (Papilionoidea e Hesperioidea) negli ambienti aridi ripari del Piave nel suo settore Prealpino (nord-est Italia). De rerum natura. Quaderni del Museo Storia Naturale e Archeologia di Montebelluna. 5: 23-45.
• Zanella L., Uliana M., Scarton F., Barbieri E., Ratti E. (2009) – Valutazione ambientale di alcuni arenili veneti con formazioni a dune mediante lo studio della coleotterofauna specializzata (Insecta, Coleoptera). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 60: 41-88.