Michele Rossini

Michele Rossini, Brazilian entomologist

Università degli Studi di Urbino, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari, via A. Saffi 2, 61029, Urbino (PU), Italy. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Av. Fernando Corrêa da Costa, 2367, Boa Esperança, 78060-900 - Cuiabá, MT, Brazil

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Rossini, M. & Vaz-De-mello, F.Z. 2015: A review of the genus Chalcocopris Burmeister, 1846 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3920(2): 291–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3920.2.5. Reference page.

Arriaga-Jiménez, A., Moctezuma, V., Rossini, M., Zunino, M. & Halffter, G. 2016. A new species of Onthophagus (Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeinae) from the Mexican Transition Zone, with remarks on its relationships and distribution. Zootaxa 4072(1): 135–143. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.1.7. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Cupello, M., Rossini, M. & Vaz-De-Mello, F.Z. 2016. On the type species of the South American dung beetle genus Chalcocopris Burmeister, 1846 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with some comments on the type locality of C. hesperus (Olivier, 1789). Zootaxa 4061(3): 274–276. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.3.5. Reference page.
Moctezuma, V., Rossini, M., Zunino, M. & Halffter, G. 2016. A contribution to the knowledge of the mountain entomofauna of Mexico with a description of two new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae). ZooKeys 572: 23–50. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.572.6763.Reference page.
Rossini, M. & Vaz-de-Mello, F.Z. 2016. On the identity of Onthophagus columbianus Boucomont, 1932 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Zootaxa 4061(3): 296–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.3.10. Reference page.
Rossini, M., Vaz-De-Mello, F.Z. & Zunino, M. 2016. More transcontinental mislabeling in the genus Onthophagus: d’Orbigny’s “African” Group 27 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Zootaxa 4175(5): 494–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.5.9. Reference page.

Rossini, M., Vaz-De-Mello, F.Z. & Zunino, M. 2018. A taxonomic revision of the New World Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the osculatii species-complex, with description of two new species from South America. Journal of Natural History 52(9-10): 541-586. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1437230.Reference page.

Rossini, M., Montreuil, O., Grebennikov, V. & Tarasov, S. 2021. Genome sequencing reveals extraordinary cephalic horns in the Madagascan dung beetle genus Helictopleurus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeinae): insight from a revision of fungicola species group. Zookeys 1033: 63–79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1033.63527 Reference page.
Rossini, M., Vaz-de-Mello, F.Z., Montreuil, O., Porch, N. & Tarasov, S. 2021. Extinct before discovered? Epactoides giganteus sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae), the first native dung beetle to Réunion island. Zookeys 1061ː 75–86. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1061.70130 Reference page.
Tello, F., Verdú, J., Rossini, M. & Zunino, M. 2021. Onthophagus pilauco sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae): evidence of beetle extinction in the Pleistocene–Holocene transition in Chilean Northern Patagonia. Zookeys 1043: 133–145. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1043.61706 Reference page.

Tello, F., Génier, F., Pino, M., Rossini, M. & Verdú, J.R. (2024). Gomphocopris ashworthi gen. et sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeinae, Homocoprini): An additional new Chilean fossil genus and species extinct at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary. Palaeoentomology 7(3): 386–394. Reference page.