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CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM

Biographical data

Fabio Cassola  was born in Rome (Italy) on October 17th, 1938. Military Service in 1960-61. He married in 1965 with Paola Pasqualini and they have two sons (born respectively in 1966 and 1968).

He presently lives in Rome, Via Fulvio Tomassucci 12/20, I-00144, phone/fax number +39-6-5200185 (E-mail: fabiocassola@aliceposta.it).

Education

High School (Gymnasium and Classic Lyceum) degree in 1956. Graduation in Juridical Sciences (Bachelor of Laws) in 1960.

Attorney and Lawyer since 1963. He has run a long time the lawyer's office of the National Social Insurance Institute in Rome (INPS-EUR). In January 1999 he has retired, to dedicate himself exclusively to scientific research and nature conservation.

Career and positions held

As a Journalist and Publicist (since 1968), he has published some hundred articles in various journals and newspapers.

As a student of Environmental Law, he has published several papers on juridical and institutional topics, mostly related with national parks, protected areas, hunting regulations, landscape management, and related matters. He also wrote a book on the shooting in Italy ("La caccia in Italia").

As an active environmentalist, he has been one of the founder members of the World Wildlife Fund, Italian Appeal (1966-1996). He was also a member of the WWF-Italy National Council (1977-1996) and WWF-Italy Vice-President (1979-1996). Moreover, he has been ex-officio member of the WWF International Council in the years 1983-1992.

In the years 1974-1983 he was a member of the Consulting National Committee and of the Juridical Commission of the Italian conservationist association Italia Nostra. Presently he is the co-ordinator of the Consulting National Committee on Protected Areas of the same Association.

In the years 1992/1997 he has been appointed by the Italian Minister for the Environment as one of the nine members of the National Technical Consulting Commission on Nature Protected Areas ("Consulta Tecnica per le Aree Naturali Protette") of the Italian Ministry for the Environment.

Since 1977 he was invited to become a member, and still is, of the Editorial Board of the International Journal Biological Conservation (1977-1999).

A member of the IUCN-Otter Specialist Group since 1978, he was the founder and Co-ordinator of the Otter Group Italy since 1982. In 1986, he promoted, organized and led a national otter survey in Italy.

A well-known entomologist, he is one of the leading world specialists of the Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera Cicindelidae) of the Globe. He has published over 130 specialized papers, dealing with this beetle family, in many different scientific journals of the world. In the years 1980-1995 he has been the Vice-President of the Roman Entomological Association (ARDE), of which he is presently the President, and moreover since 1996 he is a member of the Council and the Editorial Board of the Italian Entomological Society (SEI).

Scientific Research

His scientific research has been carried out within the following lines:

·       Environment and Nature Conservation

·       Juridical Matters related with Environment and Nature Conservation

·       Economy and Social Matters related with Nature Protected Areas

·       Systematics, Faunistics, Ecology and Biogeography of the world Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)

·       Biospeleology of Sardinia

·       Distribution and conservation of the European Otter

 He has carried out many scientific entomological expeditions in the Mediterranean area (Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey), insular areas (Sardinia, Sicily, Corsica, Kreta), East Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Northern Somalia, Kenya, Uganda), South Africa (Transvaal), Madagascar, South India, Thailand, Malaysia (Sabah),USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador & Galápagos Islands, Argentina & Tierra del Fuego.

He has attended many national and international Congresses and Meetings dealing with nature conservation, nature protected areas, economy, environmental law, biogeography, and entomology.

He has studied tiger beetle materials from many different Museums and Institutions of the world, e.g.: Natural History Museum (London, U.K.), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France), Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Tervuren, Belgium), Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin, Germany), Deutsche Entomologische Institut (Eberswalde, Germany), Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Amsterdam, Nederland), Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Leiden, Nederland), Lund University (Lund, Sweden), Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh, USA), California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco, USA), Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (Quito, Ecuador), Bishop P. Bernice Museum (Honolulu, USA), Transvaal Museum (Pretoria, South Africa), and others.

He has been the author of several hundred papers and articles on national and international scientific and conservation journals. He also translated, edited and foreworded in Italy Niko Tinbergen's famous book "Curious Naturalists" ("Naturalisti curiosi", Rizzoli, Milano 1984; new edition, Rizzoli, Milano 1998).

He has described so far well over 160 new specific taxa of Coleoptera Cicindelidae from all over the world (Africa, India, Vietnam, Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Mexico, and South America).

Society Memberships

1956- : Associazione Italia Nostra

1957- : Società Entomologica Italiana (SEI)

1960- : Associazione Romana di Entomologia (ARDE)

1965- : Lega Italiana Protezione Uccelli (LIPU) 

1966- : World Wildlife Fund, Italian Appeal (WWF)

1966- : Società Sarda di Scienze Naturali (SSSN)

1969- : Società Italiana di Biogeografia (SIB)

1973- : Fauna & Flora Preservation Society (FFPS)

1996- : Mountain Wilderness

1996- : Grus - Associazione per lo studio e la riproduzione delle specie rare e minacciate

1997- : Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano (FAI)

1997- : Société Entomologique de France

1997- : ZooVivo - Amici del Giardino Zoologico di Roma

1997- : FAI - Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano

1998- : New York Academy of Sciences

1999- : Gruppo Ornitologico Sardo 

2000- : Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali

2001- : Union des Entomologistes Belges

2001- : Mitt. Intern. Entom. Ver. e.V.  

2002- : Arbeitgemeinschaft Österreichscher Entomologen

 

 fabiocassola@aliceposta.it

PUBLICATIONS  

  Studies of Tiger Beetles

1.   Note su alcuni Cicindelidi italiani. - Bollettino dell’Associazione romana di Entomologia, Roma, 1964, 19: 18-20.

 2.   Notes on Cicindela campestris saphyrina Gené.- Cicindela, St. Paul (Minnesota), 1969, 1 (3): 22-24.

 3.   The Cicindelidae of Italy.- Cicindela, St. Paul (Minnesota), 1970, 2 (4): 1-20.

 4.  Ecologia, distribuzione geografica e subspeciazione di Cicindela (Taenidia) circumdata  Dej.- Bollettino dell’Associazione romana di Entomologia, Roma, 1970, 25: 59-70.

 5.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. V. Il popolamento della Sardegna. - Studi Sassaresi, III, Annali della Facoltà di Agraria dell’Università di Sassari, 1972, 20: 264-302, pls. I-IV.

 6.  Études sur les Cicindélides. VI. Contribution à la connaissance des Cicindèles du Maroc (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Bulletin de la Société de Sciences Naturelles et Physiques du Maroc, Rabat, 1973, 53: 253-268.

 7.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. VII. Un interessante reperto nella Laguna di Orbetello: Cephalota (Taenidia) circumdata leonschaeferi Cassola (Coleoptera). - Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Pisa, Memorie, Serie B, 1972, 79: 92-96.

 8.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. VIII. Concorrenza ed esclusione in Cicindela (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Atti del IX Congresso Nazionale Italiano di Entomologia (Siena, 21-25 giugno 1972), Firenze 1972, 23-37.

 9.  Alcuni appunti su due Megacephala del Kenya (Studi sui Cicindelidi, IX). - Studi Sassaresi, III, Annali della Facoltà di Agraria dell’Università di Sassari, 1973, 21: 316-320.

10.  Études sur les Cicindélides. X. Matériaux pour un catalogue des Cicindelidae de Grèce (Coleoptera). - Biologia Gallo-Hellenica, Athènes, 1973, 5: 25-41.

11.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XI. Validità specifica di Cicindela majalis Mandl e problemi di conservazione degli ambienti golenali italiani (Coleoptera). - Lavori della Società Italiana di Biogeografia, Forlì, (N.S.), 1973 (1974): 57-75, pls. I-III.

12.  Studies on Cicindelids. 12. Cicindelidae collected by Avv. Mario Cassola in some south eastern regions of Africa (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Firenze, (N.S.) 1975, Suppl. VI, 9: 189-221.

13.  Studies on Cicindelids. 13. A contribution to the knowledge of the Cicindelidae of South West Africa (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Firenze, (N.S.) 1975, Suppl.VI, 12: 243-262.

14.  Études sur les Cicindélides. XIV. Contribution à la faune du Pakistan (Col.Cicindelidae). - Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris,  (N.S.) 1976, 12: 75-81.

15.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XV. Rassegna dei Cicindelidae dell'Etiopia, con descrizione di cinque nuove entità sistematiche (Coleoptera). - In: "Zoological Researches in Ethiopia", Part I, Some results of the first and the second Italian Zoological Mission to Ethiopia, sponsored by the National Academy of Lincei (1973 and 1975). Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, Quaderno n. 243 (Problemi attuali di Scienza e Cultura. Sezione: Missioni ed Esplorazioni  - III), 1978, 1: 75-124, pls. I-II.

16.  Studies on Cicindelids. XVI. A new Lophyra from the Zaïre (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Revue de Zoologie Africaine, Tervuren (Belgique), 1976, 90: 866-871.

17.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XVII. Lophyra (Lophyrina nov.) latelimbata (G.Müller) nova comb. (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 1977, 118: 402-406.

18.  Studies on Cicindelids. 18. On some Cicindelidae collected in North Zaire (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Firenze, (N.S.) 1978, Suppl.X, 8: 119-144.

19.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XIX. Sulla presenza in Italia di Cicindela maroccana Fabricius (Coleoptera). - Doriana, Genova, 1978, V, 229: 1-7.

20.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XX. Cicindelidae raccolti dal Marchese Saverio Patrizi nell'Africa centrale (Coleoptera  Cicindelidae). - Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 1978, 82: 104-114.

21.  Cicindela deserticoloides Codina. Photographed on July 7, 1977, at Santa Pola, Alicante, Spain, by Dr. Fabio Cassola. - Cicindela, St. Paul (Minnesota), 1978, 10 (3), front cover picture.

22.  Cicindela silvatica fasciatopunctata Germar. Photographed on July 7, 1978, in Turkey, at Ulu-Dag (Bursa), elev. 1900m, by Dr. Fabio Cassola.- Cicindela, 1978, 10 (4): front cover picture.

23.  A review of the genus Dilatotarsa Dokhtourov, with description of a new species from Palawan Island, Philippines (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) (Studies on Cicindelids. XXI.). - Redia, Firenze, 1979, 62: 205-228 [Fabio Cassola & Robert R. Murray].

24.  Cicindela circumdata imperialis Klug. Photographed by Dr. Fabio Cassola in Tunisia, in Djerba, 5 km E of Houmt-Souk, 13 July 1976. - Cicindela, St. Paul (Minnesota), 1980, 12 (1): front cover picture.

25.  Endemismi italiani: Lophyridia aphrodisia panormitana (Ragusa) (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) (Studi sui Cicindelidi. XXII). - Bollettino dell’Associazione romana di Entomologia, Roma, 1980, 35: 1-2 [foto e testo di copertina].

26.  Studies on Cicindelids. XXIII. Three new Dromica from the Angola (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Revue de Zoologie Africaine, Tervuren (Belgique), 1980, 94: 202-216.

 27.  Cicindela hybrida riparia Dejean. Photographed in extreme northeastern Italy at Paluzza (Udine) along Torrente  Orteglas, August 1973 by Fabio Cassola. - Cicindela, Prairie Village (Kansas), 1984, 16 (1/2): front cover picture.

 28.  Studies on Cicindelids. XXIV. Checklist of Cicindela (s. auct.) of the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Cicindela, Prairie Village (Kansas), 1984, 16: 7-17 [Fabio Cassola & C.M.C. Brouerius van Nidek].

 29.  Études sur les Cicindélides. XXV. Notes systématiques et synonymiques sur quelques espèces africaines (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Revue de Zoologie Africaine, Tervuren (Belgique), 1980, 94: 693-708.

 30. Études sur les Cicindélides. XXVI. Une nouvelle espèce de Prothyma du Bangladesh (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Nouvelle Revue d’Entomologie, Toulouse (France), 1980, X, 2: 181-184.

 31.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XXVII. Una notevole aggiunta alla fauna di Creta: Megacephala euphratica Dejean (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fragmenta entomologica, Roma, 1981, 16: 25-30.

 32. Studi sui Cicindelidi. XXVIII. Osservazioni preliminari sopra una struttura sessuale maschile non genitale di alcune specie di Cicindelidi (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Atti del XII Congresso Nazionale Italiano di Entomologia (Roma, 5-9 novembre 1980), Roma 1983, 2: 93-103.

 33.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XXIX. Revisione del gruppo di Elliptica muata Harold (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Revue de Zoologie Africaine, Tervuren (Belgique), 1982, 96: 809-832.

 34.  Studies on Cicindelids. XXX. Description of Dromica pseudosetosula n. sp. (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Nouvelle Revue d’ Entomologie, Toulouse (France), 1983, 13: 347-350.

 35.  Studies on Cicindelids. XXXI. Notes on some Tiger Beetles from the Cameroon, with description of a new species of Euryarthron Guérin (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologische Gesellschaft, München (Germany), 1985, 75: 103-106.

 36.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XXXII. Le Cylindera del subgen. Leptinomera Rivalier (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Redia, Firenze, 1983, 66: 9-35.

 37.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XXXIII. Note e osservazioni su un interessante endemita siciliano: Lophyridia aphrodisia panormitana (Ragusa) (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Il Naturalista Siciliano, Palermo, 1983, IV, 7: 41-56.

 38. Studies on Cicindelids. XXXIV. A new interesting Tiger Beetle from North-western Somalia (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Firenze, (N.S.) 1983, Suppl. XVIII, 5: 167-171.

 39.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XXXV. Una nuova specie di Euryarthron Guér., con note riassuntive sul genere (Coleoptera). - Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, Genova, 1983, 115: 79-85.

 40. Studies on Cicindelids, XXXVI. A new tiger beetle from the Fiji Islands (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Senckenbergiana Biologica, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), 1983, 64: 215-219.

 41.  Studies on Cicindelids, XXXVII. A new Lophyra Motschulsky 1859 from northern Tanzania (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).- Senckenbergiana Biologica, Frankfurt am Mein (Germany), 1983, 64: 221-224.

 42.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XXXVIII. Revisione del genere Trichotaenia Rivalier, con descrizione di due nuove specie (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Revue de Zoologie Africaine, Tervuren (Belgique), 1983, 97: 689-704.

 43.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XXXIX. Cylindera (Eugrapha) illecebrosa (Dokht.) nuova per la fauna dell'Iran (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Lavori della Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali, Venezia, 1984, 9: 11-13.

 44.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XL. La "Mémoire sur l'Eurychile" di Franco Andrea Bonelli e attuali conoscenze sul genere Therates Latreille (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 1985, 3: 499-514.

 45.  Cicindela maura  Linnaeus. Photographed at Pantano Longarini, Sicily, 15 July 1979, by Fabio Cassola. - Cicindela, Prairie Village (Kansas), 1985, 17 (2): front cover picture.

 46.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XLV. Una notevole conferma per la fauna d'Europa: Lophyridia aulica (Dejean) nella Grecia meridionale (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Bollettino dell’Associazione romana di Entomologia, Roma, 1985, 39 (1984): 55-61.

 47.  Studies on Cicindelids. XLI. A new Dromica from the Transvaal (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa, Capetown (South Africa), 1986, 49: 137-140.

 48.  Studies on Cicindelids. XLII. A new Lophyra from Mogadishu, Somalia (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Firenze, (N.S.) 1986, Suppl. XXI, 3: 25-30.

 49. Studi sui Cicindelidi. XLIII. Una nuova Dromica dell'Angola (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Redia, Firenze, 1985, 68: 33-37.

 50.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XLIV. Note su alcune Dromica centro-africane (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Revue de Zoologie Africaine, Tervuren (Belgique), 1986, 100: 337-355.

 51. Studies on Cicindelids. XLVI. The female of Parapolyrhanis oceanica Cassola (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fragmenta Entomologica, Roma, 1986, 19: 117-118.

 52.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. XLVII. Risultati delle missioni del Dr. Walter Rossi in Sierra Leone (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - In: "Ricerche biologiche in Sierra Leone, II". Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Quaderno n. 260 (Problemi attuali di scienza e cultura. Sezione: Missioni ed esplorazioni - X), Roma, 1986, 197-204.

 53.  Studies on Cicindelids. XLVIII. Three new Somalian Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Firenze, (N.S.) 1987, Suppl. XXII, 18: 331-339.

54.  Über die Sandlaufkäfer Tunesiens (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologische Gesellshaft, München (Germany), 1987, 77: 85-101 [Armin Korell & Fabio Cassola] (Studien über Cicindeliden. XLIX).

 55.  Cicindela (Lophyridia) aulica Dejean. Photographed 24 July 1981 at Kardamyli, Greece, by Fabio Cassola. This small localized population is the only one thus far known from a European country. - Cicindela, Prairie Village (Kansas), 1987, 19 (3-4): front cover picture.

 56.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. L. Nota su Cicindela davisoni Gestro (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Doriana, Genova, 1988, VI, 262: 1-6.

 57.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. LI. I Cicindelidae (Coleoptera) della Nuova Guinea.- Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 1987, 86 (1986): 281-454.

58.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. LII. I Cicindelidae (Coleoptera) delle Solomon Islands.- Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 1987, 86 (1986): 509-551.

 59.  Predation by a tiger beetle larva on a conspecific adult (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fragmenta Entomologica, Roma, 1988, 21: 81-84 [Fabio Cassola, Maria Pia Eusebi & Leonardo Favilli] (Studies on Cicindelids, LIV).

 60.  Notes on the Callytron nivicinctum (Chevrolat) Tiger Beetle Complez (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) with description of a New Subspecies. - Kontyu, Japanese Journal of Entomology, Tokyo (Japan), 1989, 57: 504-516 [Michio Hori & Fabio Cassola] (Studies on Cicindelids, LIII).

 61.  Cicindela (Lophyridia) caucasica Adams. Photographed in Turkey, near Birecik, on banks of Euphrates River, 30 May 1974, by Fabio Cassola. - Cicindela, Prairie Village (Kansas), 1988, 20 (2): front cover picture.

 62.  Studies on Tiger Beetles. LV. Biogeography of the Cicindelidae (Coleoptera) of the Australo-Papuan Region. - In: "Biogeographical Aspects of Insularity", Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, 1990 (Atti dei Convegni Lincei, 85), 559-574.

 63.  A new species of tiger beetle from India (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Annals of Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), 1989, 58: 71-76 [Robert E. Acciavatti & Fabio Cassola] (Studies on Cicindelids, LVI).

 64.  Studies on Cicindelids. LVII. Additions to the fauna of New Guinea, and re-depository of some type specimens (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Revue suisse de Zoologie, Genève (Switzerland), 1989, 96: 803-810.

 65.  Cicindela (Tribonia) latesignata LeConte. Photographed in Mexico: Baja California Sur, at Laguna de San Ignacio (Pacific coast) on 18 March 1980 by Fabio Cassola. - Cicindela, Prairie Village (Kansas), 1989, 21 (1): front cover picture.

 66.  Studies on Cicindelids. LIX. Two new Dromica species from Somalia (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Redia, Firenze, 1989, 72: 117-125.

 67. Studi sui Cicindelidi. LVIII. Riscoperta, valore specifico e posizione sistematica di Cicindela parvimaculata Fowler, 1912 (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fragmenta Entomologica, Roma, 1990, 22: 61-66.

 68.  Studies on Tiger Beetles. LX. New records from Sierra Leone (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - In: "Ricerche biologiche in Sierra Leone, III", Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, 1990 (Problemi attuali di Scienza e di Cultura. Sezione: Missioni ed Esplorazioni - XII), 125-131.

 69.  Somalian tiger beetles: faunistics and biogeography (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Biogeographia (Lavori della Società Italiana di Biogeografia), Bologna 1990 (1988), 14 (The Biogeography of Somalia): 175-227 [Fabio Cassola & John E. Miskell] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXI).

 70.  Mimicry in Cicindelini e Graphipterini africani (Coleoptera, Caraboidea). - Biogeographia (Lavori della Società Italiana di Biogeografia), Bologna 1990 (1988), 14 (The Biogeography of Somalia): 229-233 [Fabio Cassola & Augusto Vigna Taglianti] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXII).

 71.  Cicindela (Neolaphyra) leucosticta Fairmaire. Photographed by Fabio Cassola in Tunisia, 55 km SW of Kairouan, Oued El Hateb (O. Zeroud) on 25 March 1989. - Cicindela, Prairie Village (Kansas), 1990, 22 (1): front cover picture.

 72.  Two new tiger beetles from Yucatán, Mexico (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Doriana, Genova, 1990, VI, 272: 1-10 [Fabio Cassola & Hirofumi Sawada] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXIV).

 73.  Studi sui Cicindelidi. LXIII. I Cicindelidae (Coleoptera) dell'Isola di Sulawesi, Indonesia. - Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "G. Doria", Genova, 1991, 88: 481-664.

 74.  Cicindela (Chaetodera) regalis Dejean. Photo taken in northern Somalia, at Arabsiyo, 35 km WNW of Hargeysa, 17 May  1988, by Fabio Cassola. - Cicindela, Prarie Village (Kansas), 1991, 23 (2/3): front cover picture. 

75.  The Cicindelidae (Coleoptera) of the Republic of Yemen. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia, Basle (Switzerland), 1991, 12: 266-272 [Wolfgang Wranik, Baldur Materlik & Fabio Cassola] (Studies on Tiger Beetles. LXVII).

 76.  The effects of prey movement, size and colour in the attack/avoidance behaviour of the Tiger beetle Cephalota circumdata leonschaeferi (Cassola) (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Ethology Ecology & Evolution, Firenze, 1992, 4: 321-331 [Sandro Lovari, Leonardo Favilli, Maria Pia Eusebi & Fabio Cassola] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXV).

 77.  Cicindela (Lophyridia) littoralis nemoralis Olivier. Photo taken in Tuscany, Italy, in Maremma Natural Park, at mouth of the River Ombrone, June 1975, by Fabio Cassola. - Cicindela, Prairie Village (Kansas), 1992, 24 (1-2): front cover picture.

78.  Note su alcuni Cicindelidi malgasci (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milano, 1992, 132 (1991), 12: 153-160 [Fabio Cassola & Carlo Violani] (Studi sui Cicindelidi. LXVI).

 79.  World-Wide Species Richness Patterns of Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae): Indicator Taxon for Biodiversity and Conservation Studies. - Conservation Biology, 1992, 6, 3: 376-391 [David L. Pearson & Fabio Cassola] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXVIII).

 80.  Endemismi italiani, 34: Cicindela majalis Mandl, 1935 (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Bollettino dell’ Associazione romana di Entomologia, Roma, 1992, 47: front cover picture and text (Studi sui Cicindelidi. LXXI).

 81.  Ricordo di Mario Cassola. - Bollettino dell’ Associazione romana di Entomologia, Roma, 1993, 47 (1992): 129-130.

 82.  Photographs Nos. 10 (avv. Fabio Cassola), 60 (Cicindela silvicola), 63 (Cicindela gallica), 89 (Cicindela hybrida pseudoriparia), 146 (Cicindela campestris), 153 (Cicindela campestris saphyrina), 199 (Lophyridia caucasica), 204 (Lophyridia concolor), 235 (Lophyridia aulica, larva), 236 (Lophyridia aulica), 246 (Lophyridia aphrodisia panormitana).- In: K. Werner, Cicindelidae Regionis Palaearcticae, 1. Die Käfer der Welt, Volume 13. Sciences Nat, Compiègne 1991, 1-74 pp., Tafeln 1-30.

 83.  Photographs Nos. 290 (Neolaphyra leucosticta), 307 (Cephalota chiloleuca), 334 (Cephalota circumdata leonschaeferi), 340 (Cephalota eiselti), 356 (Cassolaia maura cupreothoracica), 410 (Eupgrapha arenaria), 426 (Eugrapha trisignata hellenica).- In: K. Werner, Cicindelidae Regionis Palaearcticae, 2. Die Käfer der Welt, Volume 15. Sciences Nat, Compiègne 1992, 1-94 pp., Tafeln 31-57.

 84.  Studies on Tiger Beetles. LXIX. A Revision of the Austrocicindela Group (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fragmenta Entomologica, Roma, 1993, 25: 43-65.

 85.  Studies on Tiger Beetles. LXX. Notes on Cicindela clathrata Dejean, 1825, with description of a new species from northern Namibia and southern Angola (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Journal of African Zoology, Tervuren (Belgium), 1993, 107: 355-362.

 86.  Photograph Nos. 128A (Type locality of Cicindela limbata arenicola), 203A (Cicindela latesignata).- In: K. Werner, Cicindelidae Regionis Nearcticae, 3. Die Käfer del Welt, Volume 18. Sciences Nat, Compiègne 1993, 1-163 pp, Tafeln 1-24.

 87.  The larvae of tiger beetles from Central Asia (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Verona, 18, 1991 (1994): 11-43 [Alexandr V. Putchkov & Fabio Cassola] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXII).

88.  Neotype  designation and  male  description of  Tricondyla herculeana  W.  Horn,  1942  (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Fragmenta Entomologica, Roma, 1994, 25 (2): 281-284 [Fabio Cassola & Hirofumi Sawada] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXIII).

 89.  Photographs Nos. 316A (Habroscelimorpha californica mojavi), 324A (Laguna del Perro near Willard, Torrance Co., NM), 329A (Willcox Playa, Sulphur Springs Valley, AZ). - In: K. Werner, Cicindelidae Regionis Nearcticae, 4. Die Käfer del Welt, Volume 20. Sciences Nat, Compiègne 1994, 1-196 pp, Tafeln 25-50.

 90. Studies on Tiger Beetles. LXXIV. Notes on two poorly known Mexican taxa of the Chaudoir's collection (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Doriana, Genova, 1994, VI, 283: 1-6.

 91.  Re-discovery, re-description and elevation to species status of Myriochile (Monelica) pauliani (Colas, 1942) (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia, Lisboa (Portugal), 1995, n° 151 (VI-1): 1-6 [Artur R. M. Serrano & Fabio Cassola] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXV).

 92.  Studies on Tiger Beetles. LXXVI. On some new or poorly known African species (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fragmenta  Entomologica, Roma, 1995, 26 (2): 259-291.

 93.  Studies on Tiger Beetles. LXXVII. New data on the species of the genus Cylindera Westwood, 1831, subgenus Leptinomera Rivalier, 1961 (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden (Nederland), 1995, 69 (X): 113-119, figs.1-2.

 94.  A new Naviauxella from Vietnam (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Acta Coleopterologica, 1995, 11 (2): 43-46 [Fabio Cassola & Karl Werner] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXIX).

 95.  A new Cylindera species (subgenus Leptinomera Rivalier) from Brunei, northern Borneo (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Coleoptera, Schwanfelder Coleopterologische Mitteilungen, Schwanfeld (Germany), 1995, 10: 11-15 [Fabio Cassola & Hans Probst] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXX).

 96.  Notes on the Tiger Beetle Fauna of the Sultanate of Oman (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fauna of Saudi Arabia, Baisle (Switzerland), 1996, 15: 196-205 [Fabio Cassola & Abeslam Rihane] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXVIII).

 97.  Additional data on the tiger beetle fauna of New Guinea: Results of the explorations of A.Riedel in New Guinea 1990-1994 (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Coleoptera, Schwanfelder Coleopterologische Mitteilungen, Schwanfeld (Germany), 1996, 18: 1-12 [Fabio Cassola & Karl Werner] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXXI).

 98.  Biodiversity and distribution of the Neotropical Genus Pseudoxycheila Guérin, 1939 (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Proceedings of the XX International Congress of Entomology (Firenze, Italy, August 25-31, 1996), Firenze 1996: 73 (No. 02-014) (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXXV).

 99.  Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) of the Philippine Islands. -  Proceedings of the XX International Congress of Entomology (Firenze, Italy, August 25-31, 1996), Firenze, 1996: 76 (No. 02-026) [Fabio Cassola & Robert D. Ward]  (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXXVI).

 100.  Description of the larva of Eucallia boussingaulti (Guérin) (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae: Cicindelini).- Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft (Bulletin de la Société Entomologique Suisse), 1996, 69 (3-4): 371-376 [Erik Arndt, Fabio Cassola & Alexander V. Putchkov] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXXII).

 101.  A new species of Oxygonia from Ecuador (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).- Entomological News, 1997, 108 (1): 15-18 [Fabio Cassola & Michael G. Kippenhan] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXXIII).

 102.  Studies on Tiger Beetles. LXXXIV. Additions to the tiger beetle fauna of  Sulawesi, Indonesia (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden (Nederland), 1996, 70 (9): 145-153.

 103. Further new data on the tiger beetle fauna of New Guinea (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Acta Coleopterologica, 1996, 12 (3): 25-28 [Fabio Cassola & Karl Werner] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXXVII).

 104.  A new Cylindera species (Subgenus Verticina Rivalier) from north-western Vietnam (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Coleoptera, Schwanfelder Coleopterologische Mitteilungen, 1996, 24, 13-17 [Fabio Cassola & Johann Probst] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXXVIII).

 105.  Tiger Beetles from the Saudi Arabian Gulf Coast (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fauna of Saudi Arabia, Basle (Switzerland), 1997, 16: 247-253 [Fabio Cassola & Wolfgand Schneider] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, LXXXIX).

 106.  Studies on Tiger Beetles. XC. Revision of the Neotropical genus Pseudoxycheila Guérin, 1839 (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fragmenta Entomologica, Roma, 1997, 29 (1): 1-121.

[Book Review: R.L.H. (R.L. Huber), in: Cicindela, 2000, 32, p. 75]

 107. Études sur les Cicindélides. XCI. Contribution à la connaissance de la faune de la république de Guinée (Coleoptera,  Cicindelidae).- Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris (France), 1998, 103 (1): 63-72.

 108. Studies on Tiger Beetles. XCII. Further additions to the tiger beetle fauna of Sulawesi, Indonesia (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Doriana, Genova, 1997, 6, n. 300: 1-7.

 109. Deux espèces nouvelles de Cicindélides de Madagascar (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, Genova, 1998, 130 (1): 47-54 [Fabio Cassola & Lantoniaina Andriamampianina] (Etudes sur les Cicindélides. XCIII)

 110. Studi sui Cicindelidi. XCIV. Predazione su Cicindela campestris da parte di un Asilide (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae; Diptera, Asilidae). - Bollettino dell’ Associazione Romana di Entomologia, Roma, 1998, 52 (1997): 1-8. 

 111. A Remarkable New Tiger Beetle from Socotra Island, Republic of Yemen  (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).- Mitt. Mus. Nat.kd. Berl., Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Berlin, 1998, 45: 265-268 [Fabio Cassola & Wolfgang Wranik] (Studies on Tiger Beetles. XCV).

 112.  Revision of the South American tiger beetle complex of Brasiella balzani (W. Horn). - Doriana, Genova, 1999, 7, n. 310: 1-12 [Fabio Cassola & David L. Pearson]  (Studies on Tiger Beetles. XCVI).

 113.  Global patterns of tiger beetle species richness (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae): their use in conservation planning. - Biological Conservation, Barking (U.K.), 2000, 95: 197-208 [Fabio Cassola & David L. Pearson] (Studies on Tiger Beetles. XCVII).

 114.  Studies on Tiger Beetles. XCVIII. A new Cylindera from Chubut, Argentina. - Revue suisse de Zoologie,  Genève (Switzerland), 1999, 106 (2): 939-943.

 115. New Tiger Beetle findings from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins, Frankfurt am Mein (Germany), 1998, 23: 151-164 [Fabio Cassola & Karl Werner] (Studies on Tiger Beetles. XCIX).

 116. Le Cicindele come indicatori ambientali (Studi sui Cicindelidi, C). - Atti dell’Accademia Nazionale di Entomologia (Atti del Simposio “Sistematica e filogenesi dei Coleotteri Carabidi”, Firenze 27.XI.98), Firenze, 1999, 46: 337-352.

 117. Studies on Tiger Beetles. CI. Re-discovery and re-establishment of Cicindela varians Ljungh, 1799 (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fragmenta Entomologica, Roma, 1999, 31 (1): 71-80.

 118. Studies on Tiger Beetles. CII. The Cicindelidae collected by Roland A. Müller in the Philippine Islands (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), with description of three new species (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden (Nederland), 2000, 73 (33): 491-509.

 119. New data on the Tiger Beetles of Ethiopia (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Entomologia africana, 2000, 5: 2-14. [Karl Werner & Fabio Cassola]  (Studies on  Tiger Beetles. CIII.)

 120. Description of Prothymine tiger beetle larvae from South East Asia (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). - Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, Genova, 2000, 132 (2): 195-205 [Erik Arndt & Fabio Cassola] (Studies on Tiger Beetles. CIV).

 121.  Pseudoxycheila caribe Cassola. Photograph taken in Venezuela (Tachira), Casa del Padre, elev. 2350m, 25 June 1995, by Fabio Cassola.- Cicindela, Prairie Village (Kansas), 31 (3-4): front cover picture.

 122. Two new tiger beetle species from north-western Tanzania (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Fragmenta Entomologica, 2001, 33: 21-41. [Fabio Cassola & John E. Miskell] (Studies on Tiger Beetles. CV).

 123. A new South African Dromica species of the sexmaculata-group (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Lambillionea, 2000, 100 (2): 271-278 [Fabio Cassola, Peter Schüle & Karl Werner] (Studies on Tiger Beetles. CVI). 

 124. Studies on Tiger Beetles. CVII. The cicindelid fauna of Anatolia: faunistics and biogeography (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). [SIB - Società Italiana di Biogeografia, XXXII Congresso: Biogeografia dell’Anatolia (Roma 29-31 ottobre 1998)]. - Biogeographia, 1999, 20, 1: 229-276.

 125.  A new Cylindera Westwood, 1831 species of the subgenus Leptinomera Rivalier, 1961 from Peninsular Malaysia, with notes on two other tiger beetle species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae). - Russian Entomological Journal, 2000, 9, 3: 191-193. [Andrey V. Matalin & Fabio Cassola] (Studies on Tiger Beetles. CVIII).

 126.  Is the Endemic Galápagos Tiger Beetle Threatened with Extinction? - Notícias de Galápagos, 2000, No. 61: 23-25. [Fabio Cassola, Lazaro Roque-Albelo & Konjev Desender] (Studies on Tiger Beetles, CIX). 

 127. Notes sur des Cicindélides de Madagascar, avec la déscription de deux nouvelles espèces (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 2001, 106 (1): 51-60. [Fabio Cassola & Lantoniaina Andriamampianina] (Études sur les Cicindélides. CX).

 128. Photographs Nos. 10.6 (Manticora latipennis), 10.7 (Manticora latipennis, larva), 242 (Elliptica flavovestita and Lophyra miskelliana, habitat), 288c.4 (K. Werner and "Johnny2 M. Mindaye), 308a.1 (M. Cassola), 319.1 (Lophyra flavipennis, habitat), 327.3 (Lophyra miskelliana, living specimen), 327.4 (Lophyra miskelliana, mating pair), 328.4 (Lophyra canaliculata, mating pair), 333.4 (Lophyra somalia, living specimen), 333.5 (Lophyra somalia, habitat), 342.5 (Chaetodera regalis, mating pair), 366.3 (Cicindina inopinata, Lophyra latelimbata, etc., habitat), 380.5 (Myriochile cornusafricae, habitat). – In: K. Werner, The Tiger Beetles of Africa (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Taita Publishers, 2000, vol. I, pp. 1-191, vol. II, pp. 1-208.

 129. Review of Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) (Studies of Tiger Beetles. CXI). – In:  S. M. Goodman & J.P. Benstead (Eds.), The Natural History of Madagascar, University of Chicago Press.

 130. Studies on Tiger Beetles. CXII. A new Ctenostoma from Ecuador (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). - Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Mem., Serie B, 2001, 107 (2000): 61-62.

 131. A new Dromica species from south-western Zambia (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Entomologische Zeitschrift mit Insekten-Börse, 2002, 9: 258-259. [Fabio Cassola & Peter Schüle] (Studies of Tiger Beetles. CXIII).

 132. Studies of Tiger Beetles. CXIV. A new Pentacomia (s. str.) from Colombia  (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). - Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins, 2000, 25 (3/4): 97-102.

 133. Notes on some Tetracha-species. Studies