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

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• 5 taxon names authored by Michele Rossini

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• & 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., , 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., & 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., , 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. 
• & 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. 
• , 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. 

• , 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. 

• , 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. 
• , 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., & 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., & 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.